The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Industrialize or perish.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

When you know better you do better.