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

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

My weapon is literature

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

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

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

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.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

Dare to think for yourself.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

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

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

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

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

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.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world