Necessity is the mother of invention.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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

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

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

My weapon is literature

Courage, conviction and confidence.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.