Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

Dare to think for yourself.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess 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.

A thought is an idea in transit.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.