Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Dare to think for yourself.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Investigate, educate and organize.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
