Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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

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

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Industrialize or perish.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.