Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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

I cannot live without books.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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

Industrialize or perish.

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.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.