Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

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

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.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Dare to think for yourself.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

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