Reading Quotations


“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.” ~~ John Adams

“Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.” ~~ Rita Mae Brown

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” ~~ Victor Hugo, Les Miserables

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ~~ Dr. Seuss

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“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” ~~ Groucho Marx

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“The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.” ~~ E.M. Forster

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“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~~ Ray Bradbury

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“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.” ~~ B. F. Skinner

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ~~ Joseph Addison

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.” ~~ Samuel Johnson