Once you learn to read, you will forever be free.

As love comes from knowledge, so hatred comes from want of knowledge. Bigotry is the fruit of ignorance.

If we allow our mind to become fallow and do not pour truth into it by study, not only does ignorance possess it, but we actually reach a point where we can enjoy nothing but picture magazines and cheap novels.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

I didn't even go to college. I wish I did.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.

The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

I never cut class. I loved getting A's, I liked being smart. I liked being on time. I thought being smart is cooler than anything in the world.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.