Thomas Jefferson Quotes

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Man is what he reads.

A labouring man ... read and study halfe his time, and then be at a loss to know what is true and what not. Thus the few have almost ruined the Libberty of the press.

I tend to read a lot of books and believe in a certain ideology.

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

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

I don't know how to read. I get all my news from Jon Stewart every day.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

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.

Reading is important.

I'm always reading something.

My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.

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

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one — but no one at all — can tell you what to read and when and how.

The people who don't read - who are they? How do they make sense of things?

I love to read and learn.

I'm a pretty well-read person. I read my paper every morning.

I would always read a lot.

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

I'm quite intellectual. I read a lot and I'm very politically aware.

I don't care what you read, as long as you're reading something 'cause when you read somethin', you're learning somethin'.

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

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

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

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.