A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
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.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
