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.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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.

Investigate, educate and organize.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

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.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.