The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
When you know better you do better.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.