Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
When you know better you do better.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
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 great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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.
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.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
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.
