“My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
- Isaac Asimov
Awareness
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
- Isaac Asimov
Awareness
"Isaac Asimov: “You’ve got to learn to laugh at yourself. If you don’t, someone else will do it for you, and you won’t enjoy it nearly as much.”"
- Isaac Asimov
Self-awareness
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
- Isaac Asimov
Courage
"It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
- Isaac Asimov
Courage
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
- Nelson Mandela
Education
"You’ll find that education is just about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and it’s about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he’s willing to haul away."
- John Graham
Education
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
Education
"Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Education
"I must study lots of things or I won’t become a great person."
- Kotomi Ichinose
Education