If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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.
The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
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.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
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.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Investigate, educate and organize.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
