I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

I’m not a very creative person, you know? I’m not really an art person. I’m not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It’s the thing that people create.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

No book includes the entire world. It’s limited. And so it doesn’t seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There’s so much other material to write about.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.

What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college, and then it’s not taught very well and you end up with this sense of, ‚Hey, I can’t really figure those things out.‘

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.

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

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

In truth, I did enjoy the benefits of a Harvard connection.

We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it’s always just one person encountering the book, it’s not an audience, it’s one to one.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

When you pick up a book, everyone knows it’s imaginary. You don’t have to pretend it’s not a book. We don’t have to pretend that people don’t write books. That omniscient third-person narration isn’t the only way to do it. Once you’re writing in the first person, then the narrator is a writer.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours – and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

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

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.