Isaac Asimov Quotes

Read in order to live.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.

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

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.