Quotes on Book Learning

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

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

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.