Ezra Pound Quotes

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

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

If I could do anything in my life and be remembered for anything, I would like to be remembered for helping the world see the value of physical engagement with ideas.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

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

A child's mind is its living room; it's going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

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.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

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

Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

I love learning new techniques.

Read books. They are good for us.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.