Artificial intelligence... I've been following that since I was in high school.

Something that is characteristic of me is the breadth of my interests.

One of my great regrets is that I have not studied enough. I wish I had studied more and preached less.

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.

Strange, then, is the blindness of the intellect, which does not consider that which it sees first and without which it can know nothing.

Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I

as I reflected upon the matter, I discovered that these authors, in their books, were, after all merely making use of their own experiences or expressing ideas which they had worked out in actual life, and that to make use of their language and ideas was merely to get life second hand.

First — How did I become a Socialist? By reading.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

The trained mind is a rich mind.