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.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
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.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
