Necessity is the mother of invention.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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.
Industrialize or perish.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
A thought is an idea in transit.
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.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Know what you are talking about.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
