Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
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.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.
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.
Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
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.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
