I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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.
