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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I cannot live without books.

Know what you are talking about.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

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.