Madonna Ciccone Quotes

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be.

Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The music wasn't going to happen, and I realized I had read so little. I didn't know my way around any century. I was very under read.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

My grandfather had a proper bookcase of egghead books, and he gave them to me in alphabetical order. So we moved from Aeschylus to the Brontas, and I can still remember the great relief of going from the dipus cycle to Jane Eyre.

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Read the writers whose work is still around and has survived the winds of fashion and the attacks of the ignorant and the bigoted - read everything you can get your hands on.

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.

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.

It's hard for the majority of people to accept what they don't understand.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

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.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

One's ignorance is one's chief asset.

Books and people are hard to compare.

Ignorance breeds fear.