Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Courage, conviction and confidence.

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.

Know what you are talking about.

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

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Dare to think for yourself.

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.

Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

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