Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

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

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

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.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

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

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.