In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

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.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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 delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.