I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Dare to think for yourself.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
The knowledge of all things is possible
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
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.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Investigate, educate and organize.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.