"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
— Albert Camus

"Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them."
— Arnold Lobel

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
— Thomas Jefferson

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
— Albert Einstein

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. "
— Rene Descartes