The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
I cannot live without books.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
