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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

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

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

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

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