To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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

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

When you know better you do better.

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.

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

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

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

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

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

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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