I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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

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.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

I cannot live without books.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

A thought is an idea in transit.