Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

Had I the power, I would scatter libraries over the whole land as the sower sows his wheatfield.

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.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

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.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.

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

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

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.

Reading is important.

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.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I love to read and learn.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

I like to read and understand.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways. A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.

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