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.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
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.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
