The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

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

A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

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.

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

Some men never recover from education.

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

To teach is to learn twice over.