My weapon is literature

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

When you know better you do better.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.