V. S. Naipaul Quotes

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

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.

An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.

Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

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

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Always educate yourself.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

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.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere

Education made us what we are.

Eating a lot makes you fat. Reading a lot makes you wise.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.