If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

When you know better you do better.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

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

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

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

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

Industrialize or perish.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

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

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.

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

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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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