Know what you are talking about.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

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.

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

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.