Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
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.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
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.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
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.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
