The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
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.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
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.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
