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

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

As for hobbies, I don’t really read or watch TV.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

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

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

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

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

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.

As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I’m concerned about the recklessness of public policy that endangers people’s lives, especially in minority communities, where crime often is such a scourge.

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

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

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

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

At Cornell University, my professor of European literature, Vladimir Nabokov, changed the way I read and the way I write. Words could paint pictures, I learned from him. Choosing the right word, and the right word order, he illustrated, could make an enormous difference in conveying an image or an idea.

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.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

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

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

It’s very difficult to read a book on your computer.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

I don’t know if I officially proofread my father’s book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Libraries raised me.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

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

Knowledge is true opinion.

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha’am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha’am’s essays.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.