Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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
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.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
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.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
A thought is an idea in transit.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
