The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.
The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
A child miseducated is a child lost.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
A witty saying proves nothing.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.
Suddenly degrees aren't worth anything. Isn't that true? When I was a student, if you had a degree, you had a job. If you didn't have a job it's because you didn't want one. And I didn't want one, frankly.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge
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.
Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
