Francis Bacon Quotes

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

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

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

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

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

I've always believed in the importance of education and continuing to learn throughout every stage of life.

I'm always reading something.

I'm a voracious reader, I'm always studying.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

I just wanted to have an education.

The important thing is that you 'read!'

I'm a good learner. I am fond of reading and educating myself all the time.