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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

A thought is an idea in transit.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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.

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.