Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

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

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

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

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

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

I cannot live without books.

It is not enough for the teacher to love the child. She must first love and understand the universe. She must prepare herself, and truly work at 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

What is now proved was once only imagined.

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