All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

I’m not searching for hard news; I’m not a journalist, but I’m interested in pushing to boundaries of where we can do the kind of stories that we want to do. I mean, it’s a big world and CNN has made it a lot bigger and they haven’t flinched.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can’t even lift them.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

I could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

I was a very keen reader of science fiction.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

I don’t think I’ve ever read poetry, ever. I’m not really book-smart.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.