If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
My weapon is literature
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
A witty saying proves nothing.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.