Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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

A witty saying proves nothing.

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.

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

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

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

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.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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