No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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.

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

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Dare to think for yourself.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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