Jane Hamilton Quotes

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

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.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?

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.

Of course. You get everything from books.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

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.

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

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

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I'm always reading something.

The important thing is that you 'read!'

He fed his spirit with the bread of books

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.