A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Know what you are talking about.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

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

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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 little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

My weapon is literature

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

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

I cannot live without books.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.