Acting superior than someone else does not make you a leader.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.