Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.
Science is a scepter in certain hands, while in others it is only a plaything.
The curiosity to know things has been given to men as a punishment
I reject all violence in the education of a tender soul being trained for honor and freedom.
Happy is the nation whose history is read with boredom.
One must study a lot to know little.
The study has been for me the main remedy against the worries of life; not having had a trouble that has not passed after an hour of reading.
Bad examples are more harmful than crimes.
The first task of education is to stir life, but leave it free to develop.
This is our duty towards the child: to give him a ray of light, and continue on our way.
The best teaching is that which uses the fewest words necessary for the task.
Reading is the great provider of arguments, the key for others to listen to you.
They tell me I'm not a woman of this century, because I like slow reading, and I insist that heavy books are the frivolous ones.