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

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

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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.

When you know better you do better.

Dare to think for yourself.

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

Industrialize or perish.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.