Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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.
