Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
A thought is an idea in transit.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Necessity is the mother of invention.