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

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and elevated opinions.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

My weapon is literature

Industrialize or perish.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

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 is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.