Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Industrialize or perish.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
When you know better you do better.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
