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.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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

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.

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

My weapon is literature

I cannot live without books.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.