Edmund Burke Quotes

If you can't read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

Read in order to live.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

The important thing is that you 'read!'

I like to read and understand.

Typically, when you read, you have more time to think. Reading gives you a unique pause button for comprehension and insight. By and large, with oral language - when you watch a film or listen to a tape - you don't press pause.

If one of my kids reads a book for school and I can have a conversation with her about the book and I sense that she gets what the book is about, then it doesn't really matter to me if she gets an A on the paper.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Reading enables us to see with the keenest eyes, to hear with the finest ears, and listen to the sweetest voices of all time.

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

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Marlo taught me things I thought I knew.

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

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Reading taught me how to write.

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

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

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

Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.