Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

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

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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

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.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

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

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.