The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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

Know what you are talking about.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Industrialize or perish.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

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.

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

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.