Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
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.
Know what you are talking about.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.
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.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
