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.

Investigate, educate and organize.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.