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

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

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

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

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

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

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.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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.

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

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.