I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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

I cannot live without books.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.