Judy Blume Quotes

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

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

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

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

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

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

Read in order to live.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

One of the worst muddles of this age is its confusing of the ideas behind combative and cognitive activity. Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for.

I'm all for education.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I love to read and learn.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

I like to read and understand.

Literacy in itself is no education.

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at eighteen as I do now.