No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

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

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

My weapon is literature

A child miseducated is a child lost.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

When you know better you do better.