I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
When you know better you do better.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Industrialize or perish.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.