A witty saying proves 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.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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 had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion