knowledge Quotes

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.