Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world
Industrialize or perish.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
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 man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
A thought is an idea in transit.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Civilization is a race between disaster and education.
