Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.