Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
Everyone you meet always asks if you have a career, are married, or own a house as if life was some kind of grocery list. But no one ever asks you if you are happy.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.