All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Know what you are talking about.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

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.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.