There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

I cannot live without books.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.