If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Know what you are talking about.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
When you know better you do better.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
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.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
