It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
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.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
