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

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

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

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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

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

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

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

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live accordingly to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.