The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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

All that we know is nothing can be known. 

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Repetition is the mother of education.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool than I am. 

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence university education.

Knowledge is an ancient error reflecting on its youth. 

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

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

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

Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.