I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
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 the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
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.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
