I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

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

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

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

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

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

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.