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

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

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

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

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

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

Ideas are the root of creation.