The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
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.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
