Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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

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

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.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

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

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

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