Eddie Izzard Quotes

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.

The most important thing I think teachers can do for young people is to make them inquiring, is to ensure that they know how to gather information, that they check information and they take their information from a multiplicity of sources.

It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.

The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.

I love to consume information of all kinds, and I think that also hopefully helps with my broadcasting, that I always try to bring up a fact that maybe will connect to a person who's not a big fan, or maybe a pop culture reference.

I read books and talked to people. I mean that's kind of how one learns anything. There's lots of great books out there & lots of smart people.

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time.

One copy of The [London] Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.

I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

I don't read much, to tell you the truth, about me, you know. I don't read my articles very much or stuff like that, but I have read things upon occasion, and some of it is true, and some of it isn't true, you know. I mean it's just the way it goes, you know.

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

The kids are fixing their eyes on social media, and the stories they're looking at may not be the most important things. I'm guilty of that, too. Do you want to look at Instagram or the news? It's a difficult, and weird, situation.

I think people who read Internet blogs are usually trying to fit it in during a busy part of their day, and there's only so much information that you digest. Whereas an experience with a book is a little more comfortable, and I think people are a little more willing to really delve into information.

My father's schooling during the 1930s was heavy with memorization; eight decades later, he is reaping the benefits.

I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines.