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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

Dare to think for yourself.

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