I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.

I feel like modern country is deliberately dumbing down the human race. They're deliberately making people take glory in being uneducated and racist, and it's just sad. I think it's absolute mind control.

If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

A scholar's pen is more valuable than a warrior's sword.

One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.

Understanding is important for studying, knowledge is important for teaching, and wisdom is important for living.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge.

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.