Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

A thought is an idea in transit.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

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.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Dare to think for yourself.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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

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