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.
Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
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.
Learning gives creativity, Creativity leads to thinking, Thinking provides knowledge, Knowledge makes you great.
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.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Know what you are talking about.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
