Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

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.

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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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.

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

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

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

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Know what you are talking about.