My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
A thought is an idea in transit.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
