Francis Bacon Quotes

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

There's definitely a value in being literate.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

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

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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

I think well-read people - the world is open to them.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

I'd have liked to have been a bit more intellectual. I'd have liked to have had more brains.

Anyone who doesn't read doesn't have any business writing.

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

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

I like to read and understand.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.