Ignorance never settles a question.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.