The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

Topics: Knowledge Quotes, Passion Quotes, Reading Quotes

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction;...

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction;...

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion...

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion...

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts,...

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts,...

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked...

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked...

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes...

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes...

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our...

I look back five years ago, when I thought I was adult and knew everything...

I look back five years ago, when I thought I was adult and knew everything...

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of...

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of...

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have...

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have...

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be...

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be...

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about...

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about...

I'm not young enough to know everything

I'm not young enough to know everything

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows if there when Graces dances, I should dance.

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an...

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of...

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of...

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker:...

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker:...

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in...

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in...