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

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

I cannot live without books.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

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

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

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 am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.