Reading And Literacy Quotes:

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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

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

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

Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.

- Kofi Annan

topic: Reading, Bridges, Misery, Complement, Modern Education

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

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

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

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Happiness, Attitude, Book, Reading And Literacy, Reading Teacher

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

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

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Education, Learning, School, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational

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

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

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

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

- Martin Farquhar Tupper

source: 'Proverbial Philosophy' Series I (1838) 'Of Reading'

topic: Friendship, Book, Reading, Libraries And Reading, Libraries Books And 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

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

- John Locke

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Education, Learning To Read, Knowledge And Learning

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

source: "The Charlotte Observer", p. 2D, October 5, 1997.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Learning To Read, Inspirational Education

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

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

- Joseph Addison

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

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

- Derek Bok

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation

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

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

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

- Mary Ellen Chase

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

You cannot open a book without learning something.

- Confucius

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

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

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education

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

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Inspirational, Education, Travel, Math Education, Math Teacher

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

No one can take it away from you.

- B. B. King

topic: Education, Teacher, Knowledge, Learning To Read, Inspirational Education

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

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

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

- Harry S. Truman

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

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Education, Book, Reading, Book Reading, Libraries And Reading

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

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Education, Wisdom, Book, Inspiring Book, Inspiring Reading

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

- Henry Adams

source: The Education of Henry Adams ch. 20 (1907)

topic: Inspirational, Leadership, Education, Math Teacher, Inspirational Education

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

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

- S. I. Hayakawa

topic: Life, Book, Reading, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Responsibility, Luxury, Literacy, Education And Literacy, Education For All

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

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

- Kate DiCamillo

topic: Children, Reading, Should, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

- Grace Slick

topic: Retirement, Reading, Two, Literacy And Children, Literacy For Children

You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.

- Strickland Gillilan

source: Strickland Gillilan, “The Reading Mother”

topic: Mother, Parenting, Jewels, Mother Son, Special Mother

Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read.

- Marilyn Jager Adams

topic: Children, Reading, Skills, Learning To Read, Inspirational Reading