“I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist’s trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.”

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

There’s not an idea in our heads that has not been worn shiny by someone else’s brains.

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

No government has ever been beneficent when the attitude of government was that it was taking care of the people. The only freedom consists in the people taking care of the government.

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.

Thought cannot conceive of anything that may not be brought to expression. He who first uttered it may be only the suggester, but the doer will appear.

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

The object of love is to serve, not to win.

The wealth that increases by giving, That wealth is knowledge and is supreme of all possessions.

Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

The period of a [Persian] boy’s education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.

A demagogue must be neither an educated nor an honest man; he has to be an ignoramus and a rogue.

School is not the end but only the beginning of an education.

Education should be the handmaid of citizenship.