Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
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
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Dare to think for yourself.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
When you know better you do better.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.