There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
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
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Industrialize or perish.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
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.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.