A thought is an idea in transit.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

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

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

It is better to know how to learn than to know.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

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

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

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

The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think

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.