Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

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

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

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Investigate, educate and organize.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

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

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