Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
When you know better you do better.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
