Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

My weapon is literature

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

A thought is an idea in transit.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.