Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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.
If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
I cannot live without books.
Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
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 man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.