Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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.
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
Industrialize or perish.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
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.
