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.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

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

Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.