In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Know what you are talking about.
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.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
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.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
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.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
I cannot live without books.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
