Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Curiosity is nothing more than vanity. More often than not we only seek knowledge to show it off.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

Reading maketh a full man.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Reading is the basics for all learning.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met.

I think if people read more, that is a better world.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

How do you know that?" "Because,"Chong said with raised eyebrows,"when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read

One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence.