Roald Dahl Quotes

If you haven't read you don't have the voice. The lack of voice eliminates experience.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

We read many books, because we cannot know enough people.

Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.

We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.