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

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

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.

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

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.