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

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

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.

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

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

To every action there is always an equal and opposite or contrary, reaction

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.