Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Only the educated are free.

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.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Many admire, few know.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

My business is to prevent the future.

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.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

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

I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.

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.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that’s such a downer, and people hate that topic. It’s not that vulnerability is the upside, but it’s better than shame, I guess.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

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

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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

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

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

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.

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

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

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

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

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

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.

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.