You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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.
