Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

I cannot live without books.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.