The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
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.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
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.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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.
