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.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
