Ezra Pound Quotes

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

I'm trying to start reading books that you gain knowledge from in order to challenge myself more. As a rule, I tend to read easy reading/populist-type books, but I don't feel like I'm learning enough.

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

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

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

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

I think that if you're a thinking person you should always be trying to learn something new.

I think every day you try to soak up as much as you can to learn and understand things better.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

I love learning new techniques.

Reading is power. Reading is life.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

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.

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

Educate, educate, educate!

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.