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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 history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

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 root of creation.

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

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

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

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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

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

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

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

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.