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

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

I cannot live without books.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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.

My weapon is literature

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.