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Quotes About Knowledge

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
~ Gore Vidal
I want to read philosophers.
~ Saul Kripke
I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
~ Zadie Smith
When a new book is published, read an old one.
~ Samuel Rogers
I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.
~ Syd Barrett
Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
~ Adam Clarke
Rather big part of my time is to read scientific journals and to discover what others are doing.
~ Jacques Dubochet
I don't generally read a lot of fiction.
~ Bill Gates
If you know what you're talking about, or if you feel that you do, the reader will believe you.
~ Nikki Giovanni
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
~ William Safire
I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.
~ Charles Kuralt
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
~ Adam Carolla
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
~ Macaulay Culkin
It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.
~ Dan Brown
Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.
~ Ken Follett
I was a precocious reader.
~ Norman Spinrad
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
~ Tom T. Hall
I am not a big reader to begin with.
~ Billy Burke
I'm not really a big reader.
~ Lauren Conrad
I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
~ Lev Grossman
I've always been a big reader.
~ Stewart O'Nan
I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
~ David Nicholls
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!
~ Linda Sue Park