Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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.
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.
Industrialize or perish.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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 only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
