It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.