Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

I cannot live without books.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

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.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.