A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
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.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Know what you are talking about.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
