If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

I cannot live without books.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.