It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help 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 one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

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

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

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.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.