The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
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.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
