Favorite Quotes On Reading

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

― Victor Hugo

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

–Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think of life as a good book. The

further you get into it, the

more it begins to make sense.

–Harold Kushner

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

The most technologically

efficient machine that man has ever

invented is the book.

–Northrop Frye

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

–Marcel Proust

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

–Henry David Thoreau

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from

almost all the miseries of life.”

― W. Somerset Maugham

“One glance at a book and you hear

the voice of another person, perhaps

someone dead for 1,000 years. To

read is to voyage through time.”

― Carl Sagan

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find

time for reading, or surrender

yourself to self-chosen

ignorance.”

― Atwood H. Townsend

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move

the world.”

― Napoleon

“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”

― Anna Quindlen

“If we could follow the slogan that

says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do

something of substance for a

future generation.”

― Gordon B. Hinckley

“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how

to read.”

― Benjamin Franklin

“All I have learned, I learned

from books.”

― Abraham Lincoln

“Reading is a basic tool in the living of

a good life.”

― Mortimer J. Adler

“Books, I found, had

the power to make time

stand still, retreat or fly

into the future.”

― Jim Bishop

The End

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“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of

past centuries.”

― René Descartes