At age fifteen, Martin entered Morehouse College in an accelerated program during World War II. As the U.S. pledged to fight fascism, racism, anti-Semitism, and colonialism, King was profoundly influenced through courses in sociology, history, philosophy, literature, and religion.

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

Librarians hoard the wisdom of humanity. They are the keepers of all knowledge, the guardians at the temples of understanding and devoted protectors of the sanctuary in the midst of uneducated anarchy.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

I have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first published (on April Fools' Day, 1988).

Three kinds of people achieve illumination: those who learn, those who teach, and those who do both continuously.

He had an uncommon thirst for knowledge, in the pursuit of which he spared no cost nor pains.

As Eisenstein affirmed, the impact of books to alter the master-apprentice traditional relationship was quite clear, as people could "instruct themselves primarily from books with a minimum of outside help" and "cut the bonds of subordination which kept pupils and apprentices under the tutelage of a given master.

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.

When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

All knowledge measured, first and last, by one's allegiance to the teacher.