Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

The knowledge of all things is possible

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

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

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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

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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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