There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
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.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at it.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.
