The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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.