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
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
