Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
When you know better you do better.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
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.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
The knowledge of all things is possible
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
