Harold Bloom Quotes

I like to read and understand.

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

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

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

Reading is a bridge to thought.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Reading is the basics for all learning.

If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

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

As an undergraduate, I did maths and physics. That doesn't make me a scientist. So I try to read and understand and talk to scientists.

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

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

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!

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.