Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
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.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
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.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
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.
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 direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
My weapon is literature
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
