Zadie Smith Quotes

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

I find it's impossible for me to read Proust.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Read books. They are good for us.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

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

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

Practical application is the only mordant which will set things in the memory. Study without it is gymnastics, and not work, which alone will get intellectual bread.

Exercise of body and exercise of mind are supplementary, and both may be made recreative and educative.

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.