Stephen Fry Quotes

Television was essentially my college.

Newspapers are tutors as well as informers.

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

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment. This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking onto the matter.

We know television should educate and inform, and I believe it should entertain.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

A good education should leave much to be desired.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if that's where they get most of their knowledge from, and not from the schools, then the powers that be are definitely in charge, because they own all those outlets.

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.