Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
My weapon is literature
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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.
