Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

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

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.

Dare to think for yourself.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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

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

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.