If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
A thought is an idea in transit.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.