Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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

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

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.