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

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.