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 teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

The highest result of education is tolerance.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

I cannot live without books.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.