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

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Investigate, educate and organize.