A thought is an idea in transit.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
A witty saying proves nothing.
