Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Industrialize or perish.

I cannot live without books.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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.