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.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
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.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
My weapon is literature
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
When you know better you do better.