There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.