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.

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

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Industrialize or perish.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

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

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.