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

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.

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

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

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

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

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

My weapon is literature