Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Industrialize or perish.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Investigate, educate and organize.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore 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
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
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.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.