Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.
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 books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Know what you are talking about.
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
