A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's why I advocate that everyone go to college.

Why buy a book when you can join a library.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

If you can do that, if you can find exactly the place where the other is and begin there, you may perhaps have the luck to lead him to the place where you are. For to be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

To earn more, you must learn more.

The most important thing is to not stop questioning.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.