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

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

A witty saying proves nothing.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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

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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

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

I cannot live without books.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.