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

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

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.