I am only a pencil in the hand of God, but it is He who writes

“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.” 

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.” 

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” 

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. 

All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market.

“Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?” 

“There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.” 

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness

“Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.” 

I think any student of military strategy would tell you that in order to attack a position, you should have a ratio of approximately 3 to 1 in favor of the attacker.

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.” 

Didgeridoo is a name that white people gave it when they came to Australia, from the sound that it makes. Its traditional name is yidaki.

Most of my instruments are handmade.

“Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.” 

“A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

“I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.”

Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the next thing better. Not how much, but how well, should be the motto. One problem thoroughly understood is of more value than a score poorly mastered.

 Providence so often uses men and institutions to accomplish a purpose. 

Study me as much as you like, you will never know me. For I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.

Two there are who are never satisfied – the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.