Courage, conviction and confidence.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
I cannot live without books.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
The knowledge of all things is possible
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
