The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Repetition is the mother of education.

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevist forever.

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Anyone who has a child should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on nonalcoholic wine.

That which is evil is soon learned. 

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. 

It is a greater advantage to be honestly educated than honorably born.

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.