Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Dare to think for yourself.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion