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

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.

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...

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 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...

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,...

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...

I'm going to introduce a resolution to have the postmaster general stop reading dirty books...

I'm going to introduce a resolution to have the postmaster general stop reading dirty books...

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper...

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper...

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

Study nature, not books.

Study nature, not books.

Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of...

A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of...

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood,...

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood,...

Books are humanity in print.

Books are humanity in print.

Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written...

Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written...

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always...

There are seventy million books in American libraries, but the one you want is always...

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.

Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by...

Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...