Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

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

Science is a rising force, It is creating a new world about us. It needs to be watched and pressed into service, and in any case, it would be courting disaster to ignore it.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

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.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

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.