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

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

The future of American film lies on television.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

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

Many admire, few know.

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

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

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

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

Winning – that’s the most important to me. It’s as simple as that.

It is not, of course, complete yet – but some sentences were understood this afternoon… I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem – and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas – and friends converse with each other without leaving home.

I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

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.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

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

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Motives reveal why we do what we do, which is actually more important to God than what we’re doing.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

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

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.

My work and my family are very important to me.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.