Thornton Wilder Quotes

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

Live an interesting life. Meet people. Read a lot and widely, learn from the great writers.

In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.

Read in order to live.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

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 read, I watch a lot of movies, I'm constantly living, so I'm constantly having more to say.

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.

I think reading and travelling not only make us good artistes but also broaden our horizons and open our mind. It really helps us to become a good human being.

If I am at home I'll put 'Tipping Point' on and will always learn something from it.

I am like a sponge: I adore reading, watching films, and visiting museums and exhibitions. I am always in search of new things in many spheres.

I read a lot. I try to gain as much knowledge as I possibly can and listen to people, because I don't know what I don't know.

Read good, big important things.

Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

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.

Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

Our lives are greatly enriched when we immerse ourselves in literature and spiritual writing, not because we are going to be tested but purely for the sake of enrichment.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

To learn something new every day is still exciting!

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.