The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
To find yourself, think for yourself.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.