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

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Investigate, educate and organize.

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

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.

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

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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

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

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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

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

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.