If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Industrialize or perish.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

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.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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.