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.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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.
