Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
A witty saying proves nothing.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
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.