If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
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
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
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.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Dare to think for yourself.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
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.
I cannot live without books.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
