If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
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.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Courage, conviction and confidence.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life
One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
