The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
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.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.