One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.
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.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.
I cannot live without books.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
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.
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.
Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
