Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.