Meghan O'Rourke Quotes

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.

The proper study of mankind is books.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

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

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

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

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable.

Read in order to live.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Man is what he reads.

A man without education is an incomplete being.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I love to read and learn.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Nothing substitutes for a great education.

Reading is at the beginning of the social contract.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

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.