Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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

A thought is an idea in transit.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

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

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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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

Industrialize or perish.

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

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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