If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

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.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

My weapon is literature

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.