If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

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.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

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.