Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
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
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.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
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.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
When you know better you do better.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
