Know what you are talking about.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
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.
