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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Investigate, educate and organize.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

A witty saying proves nothing.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.