If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
My weapon is literature
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.