Isaac Asimov Quotes

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.

If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.