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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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

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

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

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

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