All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
I cannot live without books.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
