The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

Facts are stubborn things.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I cannot live without books.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

I’ve loved reading all my life.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

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.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new at all.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I’m in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I read all the time, and I’m often struck by something I’m reading.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I don’t read ‚chick lit,‘ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‚Nobody under 40,‘ or ‚Nobody under 25.‘ With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is ‚reader.‘

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.