Courage, conviction and confidence.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Industrialize or perish.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Investigate, educate and organize.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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.