God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.