Avi Arad Quotes

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

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.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

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

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

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

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

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

Read in order to live.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Every high school and college graduate in America should, I think, have some familiarity with statistics, economics and a foreign language such as Spanish. Religion may not be as indispensable, but the humanities should be a part of our repertory. They may not enrich our wallets, but they do enrich our lives. They civilize us. They provide context.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

Read books. They are good for us.

Only the educated are free.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Man is what he reads.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

A man without education is an incomplete being.

In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.