I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
