Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
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 am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I 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.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
The knowledge of all things is possible
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
