Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
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.
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.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.