Imagination is more important than knowledge.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

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

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

My weapon is literature

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

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

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

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

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

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

The fullness of knowledge only comes through the awareness of ignorance.

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

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