As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Industrialize or perish.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
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.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
