Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
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.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
