Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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

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

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Know what you are talking about.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

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

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.