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

I’m a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what’s wrong and fixing it.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that’s powerful.

I’ve known for years that the university underserved the community, because we assumed that university education is for 18- to 22-year-olds, which is a proposition that’s so absurd it is absolutely mind-boggling that anyone ever conceptualized it. Why wouldn’t you take university courses throughout your entire life?

Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.

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.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

It is not Kafka’s fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

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

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys‘ school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

When you’re young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

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.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Education is what you learn after you leave school.

The highest grade I’ve taught is the 11th grade, and the youngest I’ve taught is the 4th grade.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they’re just infested with lots of stuff.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

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

Information is not knowledge.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Millions of students now, in all the schools of America, are reading science fiction and especially, thank God, ‚The Martian Chronicles.‘

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!