A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.