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
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.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
I cannot live without books.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Investigate, educate and organize.
A thought is an idea in transit.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
Industrialize or perish.
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.
