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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

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

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.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

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.

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

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.

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

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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

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

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

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

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

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.