This world is your body. This world is a great school. This world is your silent teacher.

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

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

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

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.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

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.

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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

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

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

There is nothing we can do that will bring us more in the way of rewards than the daily striving to become better adjusted, happier, more productive human beings. It’s a lifetime job and worth every minute we spend on it.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.