The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

There is no education like adversity.

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

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.

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

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

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.