The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

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.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

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

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

A child miseducated is a child lost.