43 Quotes On The Power And Importance Of Reading
Reading is a powerful tool that can help anyone improve their life in different aspects. It can increase self-awareness and help you explore different new perspectives.
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People are encouraged to read for business and self improvement benefits, but it’s important to know the effects that reading has on your brain.
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Here are some 43 quotes on the power and importance of reading. let me know your best quote in the comment section below.
- “A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor
- “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” — Kofi Annan
- “Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Frederick Douglass
- “Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his needs, is good for him.” — Maya Angelou
- “There is no such thing as a child who hates to read; there are only children who have not found the right book.” — Frank Serafini
- “Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” — Emilie Buchwald
- “One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children.” — Carl Sagan
- “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 Gillian
- “Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.” — Kate DiCamillo
- “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” — Vera Nazarian
- “It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.” — Katherine Patterson
- “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” —Groucho Marx
- “There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” — May Ellen Chase
- “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo
- “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 Patterson
- “When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again.” —Rumer Godden
- “We read to know we are not alone.” — C.S. Lewis
- “So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.” — William James
- “There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” —Jacqueline Kennedy
- “The greatest gift is a passion for reading.” — Elizabeth Hardwick
- “There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.” — Marcel Proust
- “Read, read, read.” — William Faulkner
- “Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Then when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them.” — Karen Witemeyer
- And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.” — Karen Witemeyer
- “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King
- “Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.” — E.P. Whipple
- “A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say, “How to Build a Boat.” — Stephen Wright
- “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” — Richard Steele
- “There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.” — Jim Fiebig
- “A house without books is like a room without windows.” — Horace Mann
- “A parent or a teacher has only his lifetime; a good book can teach forever.” — Louis L’Amour
- “Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.” — Tomie dePaola
- “It is books that are the key to the wide world; if you can’t do anything else, read all that you can. — Jane Hamilton
- “I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” — Anna Quindlen
- “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” — Mark Twain
- “Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.” — Art Spiegelman
- “He that loves reading has everything within his reach.” — William Godwin
- “Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.” —Voltaire
- “Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” — Austin Phelps
- “I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.” — JK Rowling
- “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” — Kathleen Norris
- “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
- “I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.” — Jorge Luis Borges
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