Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

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

My weapon is literature

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

Know what you are talking about.

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

I cannot live without books.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.