knowledge Quotes

The more educated we are, the less we are prepared to tolerate views contrary to our own.

You can imprison but you can't enslave a man who argues with his books.

If you're on a freeway and want to know if you're being followed, what you do is enormously vary your speed. You accelerate to 100 and slow down to 30 and then accelerate again. In a city, you make a lot of turns against the stream of traffic. You go around a roundabout twice.

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

There is a widespread difficulty in the Muslim world, which has to do with how the people are taught about examining their own history. A whole range of stuff has been placed off limits.

I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.

The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.