Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

I cannot live without books.

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

Know what you are talking about.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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.