The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Know what you are talking about.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

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.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

A witty saying proves nothing.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Courage, conviction and confidence.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.