Learning never exhausts the mind.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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.
Dare to think for yourself.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
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.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
