Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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

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

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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

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

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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