Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push and educational message.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

There is no education like adversity.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

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.

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

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.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of human existence.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

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

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

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.

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.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

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

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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.

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.