Industrialize or perish.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
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.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
