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.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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

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.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

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

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

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge