Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.