Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

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

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

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

My weapon is literature

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

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

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

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.