College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Educate the children and it won’t be necessary to punish the men.

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.

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

Public education has not produced an educated public.

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

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

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

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

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

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

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

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

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.