The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
The knowledge of all things is possible
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
My weapon is literature
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
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.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
