Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Investigate, educate and organize.