An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
When you know better you do better.
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.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Know what you are talking about.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
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.
