Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name.

Prejudices subsist in people’s imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison’s inventions.

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.