The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

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.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

My weapon is literature

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.