Quotes About Knowledge From Reading

#1. I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

George Whitefield

#2. Your mind will never be dull, if you remember there is never enough to learn for it to be to full.

Benny Bellamacina

#3. Reading is a sacred-paradise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. The truth is hidden in books.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Books are the best conductors of knowledge, they transfer knowledge efficiently from one human to another with 0% knowledge loss inbetween.

Chandan Sharma

#6. The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#7. What is more important to a library than anything else
than everything else
is the fact that it exists.
[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

Archibald MacLeish

#8. I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.

Helen Keller

#9. The sessions with Mr. Dubois continued, but it was in the private parlor of Abigail Braddock that Sarah Biddle received the greatest knowledge, for in Mrs. Braddock's private parlor Sarah Biddle learned not only to read books, but also to love them.

Stephanie Grace Whitson

#10. The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,
it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind.
It is a moral illumination.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#11. The worst way to read, he said, is with the thought that you do not have enough time. The only way to read is in the knowledge that there is an infinite amount of time stretching ahead, and that if one wishes to taste only afew sentences per day one is free to do so.

Gabriel Josipovici

#12. Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

Eric Thomas

#13. I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.

Tommy Lee

#14. The greatest hurdle one must overcome along the journey from peasantry to nobility is a commitment to reading and reflection. For nothing distinguishes the nobleman from the peasant more than knowledge and understanding.
Vicar Sayeedi - Author

Vicar Sayeedi

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

John Locke

#16. A Person should thirst after reading. knowledge builds the mind, and in return one can see what one has become; by what he or she has fed there self.

Larry Potter

#17. I love people that read. I think it screams humility. When someone reads, they are essentially admitting they want more, that the world is not enough for them. They want more knowledge, more experience. Whatever this life is, they want more of it.

Nicholas Browne

#18. Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

Mahatma Gandhi

#19. Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.

Israelmore Ayivor

#20. Reading is a way to quench your thirst for knowledge.

Michelle Johnson

#21. We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

William Hazlitt

#22. When you are reading something, Mr. Mundy, ask yourself why you are reading it. Are you reading something for information? That is one reason. Or are you reading it for knowledge? Information is only the path, Mr. Mundy. The goal is knowledge.

John Le Carre

#23. Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living.

Debasish Mridha

#24. Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.

Ruadhan J. McElroy

#25. That, incidentally, gives me the greatest possible pleasure - the knowledge that we are all linked by our friendship with a group of fictional people. What a pleasant club of which to be a member! [from the preface; on writing for people around the world]

Alexander McCall Smith

#26. There so much to learn from a single book.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. Three hundred years from now children will be learning about a lost art that has the ability to:

Enrich minds,
Increase intelligence,
Reduce stress
Increase knowledge
Increase concentration

IT'S CALLED READING

Steven Aitchison

#28. The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#29. Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#31. The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

H.L. Mencken

#32. Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

Ramakrishna

#33. The great thing about reading diverse news from the fields of business, health, science, technology, politics, and more is that you automatically see patterns in the world and develop mental hooks upon which you can hang future knowledge.

Scott Adams

#34. And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books."
"Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.

Joyce Carol Oates

#35. There is no better adviser than a good book.

Debasish Mridha

#36. My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving.

Hannah Ashworth

#37. There is no such thing as doing the nuts and bolts of reading in Kindergarten through 5th grade without coherently developing knowledge in science, and history, and the arts ... it is the deep foundation in rich knowledge and vocabulary depth that allows you to access more complex text.

David Coleman

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

David Bailey

#39. But the main reason you should read this is that I don't see why I should have to know all these terrible, terrible things and you should get off scot free.

David Strorm

#40. You have to want the book enough to read it.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#41. Pray for wisdom,
read for knowledge;
do both for understanding.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#42. After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.

Marty Rubin

#43. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.

William Hazlitt

#44. When the founding fathers conceived of this new nation, they understood that the education of its citizens would be essential to the health of their democratic enterprise. Knowledge was not just a luxury; it was essential.

Azar Nafisi

#45. Voracious reading is key to knowledge.

Me

#46. The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Marguerite Yourcenar

#47. Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living.

Eraldo Banovac

#48. I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book.

Debasish Mridha

#49. Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Russell T. Davies

#50. As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#51. Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

Marilyn Jager Adams

#52. Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance.

Matthew Donnelly

#53. I asked, how is knowledge found?
'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said.

David Mitchell

#54. Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person's capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#55. Differences in reading ability between five-year olds and eight-year olds are caused primarily by the older children's possessing more knowledge, not by the differences in their memory capacities, reasoning abilities, or control of eye movements.

E.D. Hirsch Jr.

#56. Life is education.
Education is a lifetime knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#57. I often tell my clients they should do at least 30 percent of all their reading outside their own field. This will give them perspective and knowledge that will make them more interesting.

Roger Ailes

#58. Of course. You get everything from books.

Gregory Maguire

#59. almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge.

Neil Postman

#60. Your story must told.
Live a life legacy- written book or notes.
This will be there for many generations to know your rich experiences and knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#61. Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.

T.F. Hodge

#62. I feed my mind by reading everyday as I feed myself by eating every day.

Debasish Mridha