There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

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

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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 don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Books are alive, you see. They’re not dead, they’re alive.

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

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

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.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

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

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

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

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

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.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

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

I like to read books. I like to listen to music.