Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

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.

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

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Civilization is a race between disaster and education.

A thought is an idea in transit.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Know what you are talking about.

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

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

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

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.