The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
When you know better you do better.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
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.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Industrialize or perish.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
