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

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Industrialize or perish.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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.

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.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.