Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I cannot live without books.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

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.

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

My weapon is literature

When you know better you do better.

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

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.