Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

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.

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

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

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

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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.