You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
My weapon is literature
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.