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

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

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