What is now proved was once only imagined.

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

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

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

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.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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