The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

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

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life

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.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

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.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Dare to think for yourself.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.