Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

The only way to educate oneself is by making books a life companion.

Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend.

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

Greatest companion is found in reading great books.

Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.