A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Dare to think for yourself.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

The knowledge of all things is possible