Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I cannot live without books.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Learning never exhausts the mind.