You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.
No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
We don’t have education, we have inspiration; if I was educated I would be a damn fool.
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Study and in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.[Das Studium und allgemein das Streben nach Wahrheit und Schönheit ist ein Gebiet, auf dem wir das ganze Leben lang Kinder bleiben dürfen.]
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
People think of education as something that they can finish.
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
