Markus Zusak Quotes

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

Read books. They are good for us.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Eating a lot makes you fat. Reading a lot makes you wise.

I don't want to be just sitting on the couch in front of the TV all the time. I want to be learning stuff.

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

A book that is shut is but a block.

I think you never stop learning.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

Learning never exhausts the mind.