Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.