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 have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

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

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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.

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

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Investigate, educate and organize.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.