Philip Sidney Quotes

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

That's how I prepare for anything - I read whatever I can get my hands on, talk to people. I'm a bit of a nerd like that.

Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.

My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

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

I love researching. That's one of my favorite parts about school.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

An educated people can be easily governed.

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

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

Books do furnish a room.

You don't read in your own field. You read in that field when you're young, so that you can learn.

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

You have to be literate in today's world. We're not going to get away with not teaching boys to read.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

I'm big on research. I love research, so I tend to do a lot of reading.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

I think that books are fundamentally educational.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

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.