When you know better you do better.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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.

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.

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

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

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

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

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Industrialize or perish.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The knowledge of all things is possible

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.