Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
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.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
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.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
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.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
My weapon is literature
A thought is an idea in transit.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.