Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Ignorance never settle a question.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.