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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

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

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

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.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.