William Wycherley Quotes

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

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

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

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

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

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Read in order to live.

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

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

I have always advised men to read.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Speak not of what you have read, but about what you have understood.

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.

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