Quotes About Reading

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

It amazes me when I talk to people in their early 20s and they've never read the classics, things we read as children. When you don't have knowledge and understanding, then fear rises in you.

There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

I read a lot, almost anything and everything. I make an effort to use any knowledge I attain and express my opinions even at the risk of being wrong at times.

I asked, how is knowledge found? 'You must learn how to read, little sister, ' he said.

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.