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- "Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."― Barbara Tuchman
- "Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."― Marcus Tullius Cicero
- "It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man."― Richard P. Feynman