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.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

When you know better you do better.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

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.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

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.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

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