The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

My weapon is literature

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

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.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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