We are improved by reading books not by owning them.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

We are more in control of how much we know than we are of how much we have.

We sometimes allow someone—because of their confidence and our uncertainty—to ‘correct’ us where we are right, and they are wrong.

We ought to read mainly, not to know more, but to remind ourselves that we do not know much.

Even most of those who really never have time to read a book usually have more than enough time to listen to one.

A single person cannot know even a billionth of what is known, which is not even a trillionth of what there is to know.

Buying, borrowing, or stealing the book is the easy part.