Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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 there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Investigate, educate and organize the country must progress, productive works and industries are the main avenues at present next to education for the advancement of the country
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
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.
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.