Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Dare to think for yourself.

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

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.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

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

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.