Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Industrialize or perish.
The knowledge of all things is possible
