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.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

I cannot live without books.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.