Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

A thought is an idea in transit.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

When you know better you do better.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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.

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.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

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

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

Know what you are talking about.

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.