A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

My weapon is literature

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

A witty saying proves nothing.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

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.

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.

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.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

A thought is an idea in transit.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.