A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

A thought is an idea in transit.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

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

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

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