Great Reading Quotes:

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Library Cards, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Children

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

- P. J. O'Rourke

topic: Funny, Happiness, Clever, Inspiring Book, Inspiring Reading

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Children, Powerful, Reading, Favorite Book, Joy Of Reading

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

- Marcel Proust

topic: Book, Reading, Childhood, Favorite Book, Inspirational Children

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.

- Walt Disney

topic: Inspirational, Life, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Reading, Carpe Diem, Literacy, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

- Ray Bradbury

source: FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Life, Struggle, Martian Chronicles, Inspirational Reading

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

- Jorge Luis Borges

source: "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

topic: Nature, Reading, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

- Mary Wortley Montagu

source: Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

topic: Book, Reading, Library, Joy Of Reading, Diversion

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Book, Reading, Healing, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

- Joseph Addison

topic: Inspirational, Education, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

- William Styron

source: William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.12, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Life, Book, Reading, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Book

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.

- Elizabeth Hardwick

topic: Reading, Passion, Knowledge, Knowledge Of The World, Fluency

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

- Mortimer Adler

source: "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

topic: Inspirational, Good Life, Reading, Speed Reading, Book Reading

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

- Roald Dahl

source: Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin

topic: Wall, Book, Humor, Inspirational Reading, Inspiring Reading

It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations- something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own.

- Katherine Paterson

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Children, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

- Malcolm X

topic: Education, Reading, Long, Dormant, Reading And Literacy

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Reading, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

- A.C. Grayling

topic: Reading, Views, Ideas, Shared Experiences, Reading Experience

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

- Angela Carter

topic: Book, Reading, Writing, Inspiring Reading, Book Reading

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

- Harold Bloom

topic: Reading, Solitude, Pleasure, I Can Read, Reading For Pleasure

You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.

- Confucius

topic: Reading, Ignorance, Self, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

- Coolio

topic: Book, Reading, School, Great Reading

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

- Austin Phelps

source: Austin Phelps (1882). “The Theory of Preaching: Lectures on Homiletics”

topic: Book, Reading, Coats, Speed Reading, Old Books

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

- Edwin Percy Whipple

source: Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

topic: Book, Sea, Lighthouse, Joy Of Reading, Inspiring Book

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.

- Matthew Kelly

topic: Prayer, Reading, Exercise, Joy Of Reading, Speed Reading

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

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Book, Reading, Forever, Learning To Read, Joy Of Reading

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Education, Inspirational Children, Inspirational Reading

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

- Mary Ellen Chase

topic: Children, Book, Reading, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

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

- Joseph Brodsky

source: "The Balancing Act: Mastering the Competing Demands of Leadership". Book by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Al Switzler and Ron McMillan, 1996.

topic: Book, Reading, Burning, Martian Chronicles, Learning To Read

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

- Edward P. Morgan

source: Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

topic: Inspirational, Book, Joy Of Reading, Inspiring Book, Inspiring Reading

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

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Library Cards, Happy Children

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

- Vera Nazarian

topic: Inspirational, Education, Book, Inspiring Book, Inspiring Reading

He that loves reading has everything within his reach.

- William Godwin

source: William Godwin (1797). “The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays”, p.31

topic: Reading, Book, Love Of Reading, Great Reading

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Logan Pearsall Smith

source: Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

topic: Funny, Life, Witty, Speed Reading, Libraries And Reading

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

- Elbert Hubbard

source: Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

topic: Country, Book, Reading, Chewing, Chewing Gum

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

- Samuel Johnson

topic: Education, Reading, Men, Inclination, Reading And Learning

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Motivational, Friendship, Sarcastic, Libraries And Reading, Book Club

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Friendship, Education, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Dog

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

- Groucho Marx

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Smile, Learning To Read, Inspirational Reading

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Inspirational, Education, Book, Book Reading, Ink And Paper

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

- William Lyon Phelps

source: William Lyon Phelps (1935). “... Yearbook”

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Book, Inspiring Reading, Book Reading

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

- B. F. Skinner

source: "The Man and His Ideas". Book by Richard Isadore Evans (p. 73), 1968.

topic: Inspiring, Education, Book, Joy Of Reading, Libraries And Reading

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

- Anthony Trollope

source: Forbes, (p. 42), April 1948.

topic: Inspirational, Book, Reading, Reading For Pleasure, Pleasure Of Reading

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

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

A house without books is like a room without windows.

- Horace Mann

source: "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

topic: Life, Happiness, Attitude, Joy Of Reading, Inspirational Reading

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Ruth Rendell

source: Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

topic: Reading, Book, Life Is, Speed Reading, Libraries And Reading