Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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.

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Investigate, educate and organize.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.