Paulo Freire Quotes

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

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

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.

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

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

I like to read and understand.

One must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

Read much, but not many books.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

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

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.