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

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

My weapon is literature

When you know better you do better.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.