Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

I think there are more politicians in favor of electric cars than against. There are still some that are against, and I think the reasoning for that varies depending on the person, but in some cases, they just don’t believe in climate change – they think oil will last forever.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

I specifically did not read other First Ladies‘ books, because I didn’t want to be influenced by how they defined the role. I knew that I would have to find this role – very uniquely and specifically to me and who I was.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‚Does your teacher use class time well?‘ and, ‚When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?‘

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

I don’t know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

Burroughs is crap. Crap.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

I read poetry to save time.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Won’t it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

The first time you say something, it’s heard. The second time, it’s recognized, and the third time it’s learned.

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.

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.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Homework’s hard. Especially math. My kids joke with me. They tell me they have homework. I say, ‚Okay.‘ And then I sit down and they say, ‚It’s math.‘ ‚No! Not math! English, history, anything!‘

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

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.

After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn’t even go to the classes.

That’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I’m turned on by guys who are cultured. That’ll keep me intrigued. They don’t have to have a single degree, but they should speak other languages or know things about other parts of the world or history or certain artists or musicians. I like to be taught. I like to sit on that side of the table.