Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
A witty saying proves nothing.
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.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
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.
