“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605), Part I, Book I, Ch. 1 (translation by Samuel Putnam)Share
“Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.”— Miguel de CervantesShare
“Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.”— Bertrand RussellShare
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”— Albert EinsteinShare
“There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.”— ConfuciusShare
“It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one-tenth Part of their Time, to be employed in its Service.”— Benjamin FranklinShare
“From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.”— Benjamin FranklinShare
“Be attentive therefore, according to the instruction of the Gospel, to learn obedience from the lily and the bird.”— Søren KierkegaardShare
