There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
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.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
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.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
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.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do 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.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
