“The wonderful thing about learning is that you deprive no one else by taking what you learn. The wonderful thing about teaching is that you don’t lose what you give away. Teaching is also the only gift you can give that will live on into eternity. Something you teach becomes another’s who teaches it to another and to another, and on and on and on.”
“That which is now called learning, was not learning originally. Learning does not consist, as the schools now make it consist, in the knowledge of languages, but in the knowledge of things to which language gives names.”
“A doctorate study is the passion for extensive research, reading, thinking and writing.”
“It is better to buy than burrow books.”
“Devote yourself to self education.”
“Education is the key to liberty.”
“Education gives light.”
“How can we stop learning, if we still have breath?”
“If you are still breathing, do not stop learning.”
“In Indian Country,” he says, “we have a different sense of time. I’m learning and you’re learning—and more will.”
“I don t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners.”
“From one thing, know ten thousand things.”
“For every decision a man makes, he makes it with the best of the depth of knowledge he possess at that particular instant and the quality of experiences he s passed through. It s not an excuse though for mediocrity, but an avenue to learn, rise, and conquer your inefficient self. By inference, beyond an extreme line, there might not necessarily be a qualification of a choice as wrong or right, but an avenue to grow depending on how the intricacies of such a choice and its consequences are handled.”
“Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.”
“Learning is my sole delight.”
“Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.”
“Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes; own them... learn from them. Don’t throw away the lesson by blaming others.”