It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Investigate, educate and organize.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.