Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
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.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
A witty saying proves nothing.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Industrialize or perish.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.