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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

The knowledge of all things is possible

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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

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

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

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

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.