Arthur Ashe Quotes

I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

The young need discipline and a full bookcase.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

I think an education is not only important, it is the most important thing you can do with your life.

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first conversation of my life that concerned a book, and 'the life of the mind' - and now, such subjects have become my life.

Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

Education is very important, and I understand that.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

Education is very important to my parents and to me.

The basis of anything is education, so that people not only become qualified, but essentially become able to create new knowledge

Education made us what we are.

I was an engineering student and spent a lot of time in the library, and no one applauds when you finish your calculations.

Stanford did a lot for me, and I've always felt indebted. It was a lenient and productive environment.

Education is the key in so many ways.

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

I grew up in this household where reading was the most noble thing you could do. When I was a teenager, we would have family dinners where we all sat there reading. It wasn't because we didn't like each other. We just liked reading. The person who made my reading list until my late teen years was my mom.

My dad dropped out of school in middle school, but he reads five or six books a week, and my mom reads about two.