Joseph Addison Quotes

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

Read books. They are good for us.

More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.

Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

The reason I don't retire is that I learn something new every day. The brain has to be exercised the same as the rest of the body. It's about expanding, constantly pushing yourself.

Because you don't learn anything unless you can find the patience to read. TV takes that away from you. It robs you from your mind.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

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

A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

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.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I think you never stop learning.

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

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

You have to learn and keep learning.

He who laughs most, learns best.

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.