Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

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

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

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

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

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

Investigate, educate and organize.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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.

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

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

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.