Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

The racing is quite boring, sometimes. It’s hard to see how it pulls in fans.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

No matter what your mission is, have some notion in your head. Forget the model, whether it’s government or nonprofit or profit. Ask yourself the more important question: Is my mission improving the world? Are you sure about it? Seek to disconfirm that all the time. And if you can, change your mission.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

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.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

There is no gambling like politics.

Religion is just mind control.

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I’ve got books I need to read.

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Education is hanging around until you’ve caught on.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

One of the very important characteristics of a student is to question. Let the students ask questions.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

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.

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

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

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

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man’s, I mean.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.

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

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.