If fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

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.

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

Public education has not produced an educated public.

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

Those who learn fastest will achieve more than those who learn best.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

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

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

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.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

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

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, butt in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism… The one absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.

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

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.