Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
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.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
