Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
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.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
