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The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

That man, I think, has had a liberal education, who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable together, and by the same means; the training which makes man happiest in themselves also makes them most serviceable to others.

Once you have the cap and gown all you need do is open your mouth. Whatever nonsense you talk becomes wisdom and all the rubbish good sense.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.