The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Investigate, educate and organize.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
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.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
