My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

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

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 the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

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

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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

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