Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Dare to think for yourself.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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

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

A witty saying proves nothing.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.