Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

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

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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.

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

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.