To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

Know what you are talking about.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.