You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.