The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
A thought is an idea in transit.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
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.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
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 fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.