The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
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.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
When you know better you do better.
