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.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Investigate, educate and organize.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Dare to think for yourself.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

The knowledge of all things is possible

My weapon is literature

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

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