Alberto Manguel Quotes

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

I like to read and understand.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

I do think observing is important in learning.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of reading is so vast that it is difficult to see what is outside its wrapping.

One who knows nothing can understand nothing.

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.

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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

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

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!