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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.

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

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

Make human nature your study wherever you reside—whatever the religion or the complexion, study their hearts.

Education—a debt due from present to future generations.

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

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

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.

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

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.