The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
My weapon is literature
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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.
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.
Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
When you know better you do better.
