Shimon Peres Quotes

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

If you eat three times a day, you become fat. If you read three times a day, you become wise. It's better to be wise than fat.

Read books. They are good for us.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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

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

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.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

You have to learn and keep learning.

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

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.

Read in order to live.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.