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.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

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

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

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 our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.