Learning never exhausts the mind.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
I cannot live without books.