I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

Yes, I am calling for an intellectual revolution that sweeps away the corruption, absurdity and error, which prevail in morals, customs, traditions, and doctrines.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals.

What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.