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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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

I cannot live without books.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

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

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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.

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

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

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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