Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

My weapon is literature

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.