What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country.

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

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

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.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

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

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.