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

Dare to think for yourself.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

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

Know what you are talking about.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

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.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.