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

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

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

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

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

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man’s training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

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

Public education has not produced an educated public.

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

There is no education like adversity.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

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.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

If you don’t know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

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.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

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.

It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.