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

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

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

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been … It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can’t read the street.

It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to be loyal to a trust, to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do a thing.

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.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

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

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.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis’ own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue’s sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

The fundamentals of baseball haven’t changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Our great mistake in education is … the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. … We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts.

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable.

Book learning, or intelligence of one sort, doesn’t guarantee you intelligence of another sort.You can behave just as stupidly with a good college education.