A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change 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.

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

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

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.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

Know what you are talking about.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have great respect for the semi-colon; it's a useful little chap.

When you know better you do better.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

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