Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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 only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.
To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
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.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
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
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
