To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

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

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

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

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

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

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.