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.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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

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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

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

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

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.