For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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.

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.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

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.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

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

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.