A child miseducated is a child lost.

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.

The knowledge of all things is possible

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.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

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

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Know what you are talking about.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know 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.

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.