Quotes About Reading For Knowledge

#1. The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.

Henry Hazlitt

#2. Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. Thirst for Knowledge; Quench by reading.

Santhosh Gangadharan

#4. Dare to seek knowledge; it is like a search for a valuable treasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Socrates

#6. Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Henry James

#7. All life was finally judged by this degree of irritation: abuse of things that were not natural, the sedentary life of cities, novel reading, theatergoing, immoderate thirst for knowledge,

Michel Foucault

#8. If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

Benjamin Disraeli

#9. For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ...

Roberto Bolano

#10. Buying a book is not enough ... You must absorb the knowledge it contains. Your personalized knowledge is not what's on your shelf, but how much you put into yourself!

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. The principal object of your reading should be for the acquisition of useful knowledge , and the strengthening, refining, and ennobling of your character.

Grenville Kleiser

#12. No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.

Anthony Liccione

#13. Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.

Nicola Griffith

#14. The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.

Mark Donnelly

#15. I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specially want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood.

Henry Ward Beecher

#16. Water is essential for life, books are essential for knowledge.

Redmond Herring

#17. The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.

Jim Trelease

#18. A book is not just paper and ink, it's a world full of dreams, imaginations, knowledge, awakening, emboldening and a lot, lot more invaluable treasures. Gift your child a book - introduce them to the joy of reading.

Jyoti Arora

#19. Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

Henry Ward Beecher

#20. Then there were his education and his reading, the books he bought and borrowed, his knowledge of things that could not be eaten or worn or cohabited with, his interest in poetry and his respect for good writing.

John Steinbeck

#21. So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

Jim Trelease

#22. We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#23. Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the possibility of living beyond what our lifetime allows us to.

Camilo Gomes Jr.

#24. 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

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

William Hazlitt

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Matthew Donnelly

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Benny Bellamacina

#37. 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

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

Michelle Johnson

#39. 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

#40. I seek in the reading of my books only to please myself by an irreproachable diversion; or if I study it is for no other science than that which treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and live well.

Michel De Montaigne

#41. Do not say I have no time to read.
Set a daily time (15-20 minutes)for reading.
Reading is rich source of wisdom and knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.

George Eliot

#43. Reading is a beautiful prayer for knowledge.

Debasish Mridha

#44. 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

#45. I love to read for my pleasure.

Lailah Gifty Akita