Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.

If you want a new idea, read an old book.

As an apple is not in any proper sense an apple until it is ripe, so a human being is not in any proper sense a human being until he is educated.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.

Those who learn fastest will achieve more than those who learn best.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

In school, you are given the lesson first. One the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot. Men are no superior by reason of the accidents of race and color. The are superior who have the best heart—the best brain.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.

Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man should have the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have none with him?

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.