That obtained in youth may endure like characters engraved in stones.

Our whole life is but one great school; from the cradle to the grave we are all learners; nor will our education be finished until we die.

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

A college degree is a social certificate, not a proof of competence.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Society as a whole must be converted into a gigantic school.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

One must love people a good deal whom one takes pains to convince or instruct.

Reading is learning, but applying is also learning and the more important kind of learning at that.

If you are truly serious about preparing your child for the future, don’t teach him to subtract—teach him to deduct.

Knowledge itself is power.

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.