The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

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

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

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

Dare to think for yourself.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

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

Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

I cannot live without books.

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

My weapon is literature

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

The knowledge of all things is possible

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world

When you know better you do better.

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

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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