An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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 like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

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.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

A thought is an idea in transit.