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

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

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.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.