A room without books is like a body without a soul.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I cannot live without books.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
There are no facts, only interpretations.
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.