It is better to know how to learn than to know.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
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.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
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 idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
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.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
When you know better you do better.
