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“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.”

“No one can take it away from you.”

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

“If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

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

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”