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.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
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.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Investigate, educate and organize.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
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.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
