Mother Jones Quotes

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

My mom was big on education, big on reading, so she was always pushing books on me: 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X,' like, 'Read these books.' And it was like, man, I'm learning stuff that I just can't get anywhere else.

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.

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

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

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

It's really not about the money. It's just about educating yourself.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

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

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

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

Always educate yourself.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Read in order to live.

I just want to be educated.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

Read books. They are good for us.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

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.

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.