I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
