The highest result of education is tolerance.
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.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.