The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
I cannot live without books.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
Learning never exhausts the mind.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
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.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
