All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

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.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

When you know better you do better.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.