Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Know what you are talking about.

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.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

A thought is an idea in transit.

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.

My weapon is literature

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.