My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

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

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

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

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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