Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
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 deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
When you know better you do better.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
