Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

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

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.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Industrialize or perish.

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.