Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
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
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.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
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 child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
