A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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.
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.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
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.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Dare to think for yourself.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
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.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
