The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

A thought is an idea in transit.

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

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

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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

What is now proved was once only imagined.

Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves.

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

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

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

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

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

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

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

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.

The secret of life is not enjoyment but education through experience.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.