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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

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

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.