Stephanie Seymour Quotes

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.

Do you wish to learn? There are books that can teach you anything, and there is no cheaper form of education, nor one whose effects are more lasting. My education came from books, and they have been my companions by many campfires, in bunkhouses, ships' forecastles, in hotels and on planes. No matter where you find me, I am never far from a book.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

I'm always reading something.

I had never attended high school, but I was fairly well read.

It's always important to read, to know something about this world, so I try to learn, to know, to see what I can learn for myself. Be it from books, TV or the Internet, I try to know what happened in the world.

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start reading, within reason, can lead to other discoveries.

I just read history books. I read nothing but history books. They have so much to give; I wish I'd majored in history in college.

Reading maketh a full man.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.