The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
A thought is an idea in transit.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
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.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.