In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
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.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Know what you are talking about.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
