Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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

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

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

The knowledge of all things is possible

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.