Richard Hughes Quotes

When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them is to bring literature to people who would normally not be quite as demanding in their reading tastes, to show them writing that can be more than just entertainment.

The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

The fate of our country, and hence of the world, depends on the degree to which the American people achieve liberal education. It is a process…of placing in the hands of the American people the means of continuing and revitalizing Western civilization, for the sake of the West and for the sake of all mankind.

A man without education is an incomplete being.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Learning is an unwelcome guest to the Devil, and therefore he would fain starve it out …. If ever there be any Considerable Blow given to the Devil's Kingdom, it must be, by Youth Excellently Educated.

Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

A good education alters the judgment and manners…

I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform my understanding of evolution.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.