Alan Bennett Quotes

I have barely time to give you a brief statement of facts as I find them.

I would like that to be known; these facts are in the summary which I think is a very good one.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

There's no question there's enough information available to all of us in this society for darn near anything. The problem is the quality of the information, the presentation of it... You shouldn't have to be a lawyer.

I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.

Unobstructed access to facts can produce unlimited good only if it is matched by the desire and ability to find out what they mean and where they lead.

The Library is a wilderness of books.

Facts per se can neither prove nor refute anything. Everything is decided by the interpretation and explanation of the facts, by the ideas and the theories.

He was so excited by this little bit of intelligence that he might have gone off, perplexed, pondering for a long time. It was like reading a wonderful sentence in a book, and not being able to continue because so many possibilities were crowding his mind.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

He spoke in telegram-as if every word he used cost five bucks, and he only had a twenty in his wallet.

Science is the most complete presentment of facts with the least expenditure of thought

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market alow you to put there.

Learn, compare, collect the facts!

It's not the subject that's cliché; it's cliché or not. But in fact, this is the way you're talking about it.

Libraries are starting places for the adventure of learning that can go on whatever one's vocation and location in life. Reading is an adventure like that of discovery itself. Libraries are our base camp.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

Book! You lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places. You'll do to give us the bare words and facts, but we come in to supply the thoughts.

Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

There was a time when the reader of an unexciting newspaper would remark, 'How dull is the world today!' Nowadays he says, 'What a dull newspaper!'

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.