If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

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.

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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

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

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.