Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that’s the one thing people can’t take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

If you just needed the skills to pass the bar, two years would be enough. But if you think of law as a learned profession, then a third year is an opportunity for, on the one hand, public service and practice experience, but on the other, also to take courses that round out the law that you didn’t have time to do.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‚Star Trek.‘ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

Actor’s life is very long.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

I’m not well-read, but when I read, I read well.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.