Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

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

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.