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.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Know what you are talking about.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
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
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
