There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

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

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

My weapon is literature

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

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

A thought is an idea in transit.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.