It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.