Reading

"A good play is a good thought; a great play is a great thought. A great thought is a thrust outward, a daring act."

Arthur Miller

"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. "

Ezra Pound

"In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books."

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
 

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

Logan Smith

"What is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"

Lewis Carroll

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

Mark Twain

"Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written."

Henry David Thoreau

"For now, books are still the best way of taking great art and its
consolations along with us on the bus."        

Francine Prose

"Leaving a child alone to savor a book, to get from it what he or she will, and then holding your tongue when the child closes the book, requires a tremendous act of faith--faith in children and faith in books." 

Susan Ohanian _One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards_ 1999

"Come, take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow."

William Shakespeare

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

Jorge Luis Borges

"A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance."

LBJ

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

S.I. Hayakawa

"I cannot live without books."

Thomas Jefferson

"Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients."

A.E. Housman

"Man builds no structure which outlives a book."

Eugene Ware

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

Dr. Suess

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world, the fit inheritance of generations and nations."

Henry David Thoreau

"A book is...the chariot that bears the human soul."

Emily Dickinson

"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."

Mohammed

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

Barbara Tuchman

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero

"A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us."

W.H. Auden

"Books are not full of men, yet they are alive."

Stephen Vincent Benet