The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Books are absent teachers.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, for those who have it, is the most certain form of knowledge, not a tentative opinion.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.

The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.

Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you.

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.

If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa’s glory.

The best thing I can make is a peanut butter-and-jelly sandwich.

In case we have to shoot Democrats. It happened during the Civil War, and it could happen again.

Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first.