Tom Lehrer Quotes

Reading taught me how to write.

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

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

If I don't have words, it's a sign I'm not reading enough.

The biggest impact my father had on my life was teaching the importance of literacy.

Reading is power. Reading is life.

But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.

As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.

Read in order to live.

Education happens to be something that all people, all cultures, need to embrace. Math, science, the words of the world. To be able to speak and be able to have clarity and to be able to think. Those are the greatest of gifts.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Reading is a huge part of life.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

What is reading, but silent conversation.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform my understanding of evolution.

The important thing is that you 'read!'

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

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

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.