Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

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.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

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

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

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