Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

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.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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 direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.