A child miseducated is a child lost.

Industrialize or perish.

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

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

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.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

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

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.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.