Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
A thought is an idea in transit.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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.
I cannot live without books.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
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.
Know what you are talking about.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
