Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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.

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.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

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.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

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

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.