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

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

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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

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

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

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

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

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

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Necessity is the mother of invention.