What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
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.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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.
