If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Dare to think for yourself.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

My weapon is literature

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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

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.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.