Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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 help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
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.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
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
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
