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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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

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

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

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.

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

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Dare to think for yourself.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.