He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
I am a part of everything that I have read.
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.
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.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
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
A thought is an idea in transit.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
