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

Dare to think for yourself.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

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

I cannot live without books.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion