Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

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

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

My weapon is literature

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help 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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I cannot live without books.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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