The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
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.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
My weapon is literature
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.