The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

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.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life