I cannot live without books.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

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