Steve Guttenberg Quotes

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

Eating a lot makes you fat. Reading a lot makes you wise.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero. You'd be amazed at how much Warren reads - at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

I'm always trying to find brain food and indulge in knowledge that's gonna be useful.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.