I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Dare to think for yourself.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

A thought is an idea in transit.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

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

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

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

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

My weapon is literature

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

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