Learning never exhausts the mind.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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 more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
