Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
