Top 100 Reading Knowledge Quotes
#1. 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
#2. My stomach is rather content, now that I think about it. 'Tis my mind that is starving.
Hannah Ashworth
#3. 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
#5. After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.
Marty Rubin
#6. Voracious reading is key to knowledge.
Me
#7. 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
#8. Knowledge can be acquired by education, reading, communicating and observing, but also simply by living.
Eraldo Banovac
#9. 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
#10. As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate.
Ludwig Feuerbach
#11. Read for the sake of using others knowledge to find your own inner guidance.
Matthew Donnelly
#12. I asked, how is knowledge found?
'You must learn how to read, little sister,' he said.
David Mitchell
#13. 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
#14. 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.
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Much is known by reading, more is mastered by doing.
T.F. Hodge
#20. 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
#22. Books are the best conductors of knowledge, they transfer knowledge efficiently from one human to another with 0% knowledge loss inbetween.
Chandan Sharma
#23. The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.
Eric Thomas
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. Unless all that we take to be knowledge is an illusion, we must hold that in thinking we are not reading rationality into an irrational universe, but responding to a rationality with which the universe has always been saturated.
Mary Midgley
#35. 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
#36. To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
Virginia Woolf
#37. It is this personal knowledge that is the basis of discipleship, and it involves more than reading the Bible, memorizing Scripture, and praying. It is intimately walking in communion with the Father through living, loving, and spending time with God.
Robby Gallaty
#38. I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air.
Sholem Asch
#39. It's amazing how the more you read, the less you know.
Anna Breslaw
#40. I read them all, read them one by one with a kind of constant hunger as if they were apples that fed and made you hungry at the same time.
Niall Williams
#41. Anyone can write good sex scenes. All you need is some basic knowledge of anatomy, the right vocabulary and some choice reading material. Experience has nothing to do with it.
Claire Kent
#43. Knowledge comes from reading but wisdom comes from experience of living.
Debasish Mridha
#44. Knowledge is a funny thing, Auron. The more of it that's in your head, the more your head can hold. It breeds on its own. You never know what the next bit of reading is going to do, what it's going to meet up with in your head and mate.
E.E. Knight
#45. You are reading me; over the boundary of time and distance, I am touching you, not with my hands but with my love.
Debasish Mridha
#46. Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
Robert B. Parker
#47. 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
#48. Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
Roberto Bolano
#51. Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
#52. Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#53. If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown about by every wind of doctrine.
D.L. Moody
#54. I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.
Megan Fox
#55. Reading gives your knowledge and knowledge is power, which helps you live your life better
Franklin
#56. If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world.
Ben Carson
#57. A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Michael Marino
#58. 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
#59. We spend great sum of money to buy good books, so that we can satisfy our pleasure of reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#60. 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
#61. Knowledge should mean a full grasp of knowledge:
Knowledge means to know yourself, heart and soul.
If you have failed to understand yourself,
Then all of your reading has missed its call.
Yunus Emre
#62. When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#63. The things you read will fashion you by slowly conditioning your mind.
A.W. Tozer
#65. Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#66. Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
#67. No matter how revolutionary people were, he said, they could not live without books. Without books, we would not understand the world; without books, we could not develop; without books, nature could not serve humanity.
Xinran
#68. Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
David Brainerd
#69. Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
Socrates
#70. Books whose topics I thoroughy depsise are accapteble because they often force the reader to think and to examine his own beliefs. In an age where most people are either blindly obedient or radical, exposing oneself to the ideas contained in even the most controversial of books is a good thing.
Tiffini Johnson
#71. Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them.
I am old.
Walter
Barbara Wersba
#72. Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.
Alberto Manguel
#73. Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
Henry James
#74. To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.
Philippa Gregory
#75. 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!
Mr. T
#76. Wisdom is not acquired by reading. Wisdom is what results when you incorporate this knowledge into your personal experience.
Jim Lawless
#77. In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.
Bill Vaughan
#78. I wish I could fall asleep. But with a good book in my hands, I stay awake to finish reading.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#80. I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.
Nicholas Brendon
#81. For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ...
Roberto Bolano
#82. Knowledge is knowing ... or knowing where to find out.
Alvin Toffler
#83. Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
J.C. Ryle
#84. Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.
Tomie DePaola
#85. No writer is a quiet reader, for their reading will speak of their writing.
Anthony Liccione
#87. Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
Orison Swett Marden
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. To her all books were the same and, as with her subjects, she felt a duty to approach them without prejudice ... Lauren Bacall, Winifred Holtby, Sylvia Plath - who were they? Only be reading could she find out.
Alan Bennett
#91. One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."
John M. Tyler
#93. study: The reading of books or examination of other materials to gain knowledge. Page 5.
Sean Clouden
#95. Your favorite occupation? Travel in contested territory. Hard-working writing and reading when safely home, in the knowledge that an amusing friend is later coming to dinner.
Christopher Hitchens
#96. I said something about reading not being knowledge, about knowledge without experience being food without sustenance.
David Mitchell
#97. 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
#98. 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
