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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.