Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed.

We shall be better, braver, andmore active if we believe it right tolook for what we don't know.

A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.