“There is no book so bad but something good may be found in it.”

— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605–1615), Part II, Ch. 3

About Miguel de Cervantes

1547 – 1616

Spanish novelist, author of "Don Quixote".

“Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowheartedness.”

“Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.”

“Every one is the son of his own works.”

“The true University of these days is a collection of Books.”

“Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.”

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

“Education with inert ideas is not only useless: it is, above all things, harmful.”