Reading Quotes - Page 10

• A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain.

  Jackie French

  Inspirational, Change, Children

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• Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Party, Passion, Character

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.379

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• When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Library, Steps, Literacy

  "O" Magazine, December 2003.

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• Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

  Neil Postman

  Education, Children, Writing

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.70, Vintage

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• He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

  Martial

  Education, Writing

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• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Age, Novelty, Delight

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• The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Light, Hands

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

  Jean Fritz

  Book, Library, Christmas Eve

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• There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  'The Literary Character' (1795) ch. 11

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• The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

  Henry Giroux

  Book, Knowing, World

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• We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Kids, Needs, Flats

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• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Education, Reflection

  "The Book-Lover's Enchiridion" by Alexander Ireland, (p. 94), 1884.

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• For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Inspirational, Funny, Time

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• A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Children, Powerful

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• Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

  Maxim Gorky

  Book, Thinking, Library

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• In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mind, Facts, Playgrounds

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Literature, Conversation

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Literature, Wonderful

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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  There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Learning, Cowboy

  "The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers". "Friars Club Bible of Jokes, Pokes, Roasts, and Toasts". Book by Nina Colman, p. 316, 2001.

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• Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

  Bill Gates

  Digital, Fantastic, Over It

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

  Groucho Marx

  Inspirational, Funny, Smile

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

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• Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Literature, Praise

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Happiness, Clever

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• A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Reader

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• Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Inspirational, Book, Order

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