Irina Bokova Quotes

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

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

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

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

I is reading it hundreds of times,' the BFG said. 'And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.' Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said.

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.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Read books. They are good for us.

I'm always reading something.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

I love to read and learn.

I try to read as much as I can.

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

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

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

Reading maketh a full man.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.