Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

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

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.

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

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

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

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

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

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

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