If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Dare to think for yourself.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I cannot live without books.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.