Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.