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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

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

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

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.