Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
