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Rank #1 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 24 votes	“A library is a hospital for the mind.”  - Anonymous

Rank #2 1 2 3 4 5  4.5 40 votes	“A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.”  - Anonymous

Rank #3 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 73 votes	“If you can read this, thank a teacher.”  - Anonymous teacher

Rank #4 1 2 3 4 5  4.4 42 votes	“We read to know we are not alone.”  - C.S. Lewis

Rank #5 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 14 votes	“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”  - Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

Rank #6 1 2 3 4 5  4.1 9 votes	“When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.”  - Christopher Morley

Rank #7 1 2 3 4 5  4.5 17 votes	“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”  - Clay P. Bedford

Rank #8 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 76 votes	“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”  - Confucius

Rank #9 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 19 votes	“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.”  - Descartes

Rank #10 1 2 3 4 5  4.6 69 votes	“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”  - Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"

Rank #11 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 49 votes	“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”  - Edmund Burke

Rank #12 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 7 votes	“Education is a vaccine for violence.”  - Edward James Olmos

Rank #13 1 2 3 4 5  4.6 24 votes	“This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.”  - Elbert Hubbard

Rank #14 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 66 votes	“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.”  - Elizabeth Hardwick

Rank #15 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 26 votes	“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few are to be chewed and digested.”  - Francis Bacon

Rank #16 1 2 3 4 5  4.7 25 votes	“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”  - Frederick Douglass

Rank #17 1 2 3 4 5  4.1 13 votes	“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”  - Gaston Bachelard

Rank #18 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 35 votes	“You cannot help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.”  - General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Rank #19 1 2 3 4 5  4.6 25 votes	“Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.”  - Goethe

Rank #20 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 32 votes	“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.”  - Grace Slick

Rank #21 1 2 3 4 5  4.9 24 votes	“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”  - Groucho Marx

Rank #22 1 2 3 4 5  4.5 64 votes	“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”  - Groucho Marx

Rank #23 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 15 votes	“Read in order to live.”  - Gustave Flaubert

Rank #24 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 35 votes	“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”  - Harry S. Truman

Rank #25 1 2 3 4 5  4.5 11 votes	“The goal in fluency instruction is not fast reading, although that happens to be a by-product of the instruction, but fluent meaning-filled reading.”  - International Reading Association

Rank #26 1 2 3 4 5  4.4 8 votes	“There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.”  - Isaac D'Israeli

Rank #27 1 2 3 4 5  4.7 18 votes	“Never judge a book by its movie.”  - J.W. Eagan

Rank #28 1 2 3 4 5  4.4 21 votes	“There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.”  - Jacqueline Kennedy

Rank #29 1 2 3 4 5  4.5 13 votes	“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.”  - Jerry Seinfield

Rank #30 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 8 votes	“Surviving and thriving as a professional today demands two new approaches to the written word. First, it requires a new approach to orchestrating information, by skillfully choosing what to read and what to ignore. Second, it requires a new approach to integrating information, by reading faster and with greater comprehension.”  - Jimmy Calano

Rank #31 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 7 votes	“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”  - John Berger

Rank #32 1 2 3 4 5  4.6 10 votes	“Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.”  - John Witherspoon

Rank #33 1 2 3 4 5  4.1 8 votes	“Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.”  - Joseph Addison

Rank #34 1 2 3 4 5  4.8 22 votes	“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”  - Joseph Brodsky

Rank #35 1 2 3 4 5  4.5 46 votes	“To teach is to learn twice.”  - Joseph Joubert

Rank #36 1 2 3 4 5  4.5 8 votes	“The great objection to new books is that they prevent our reading old ones.”  - Joseph Joubert

Rank #37 1 2 3 4 5  4.6 15 votes	“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. 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

Rank #38 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 5 votes	“Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension.”  - Kelly L. Briggs, "Reading in the Classroom" (2003)

Rank #39 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 9 votes	“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”  - Lord Henry P. Brougham

Rank #40 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 38 votes	“No skill is more crucial to the future of a child, or to a democratic and prosperous society, than literacy.”  - Los Angeles Times, "A Child Literacy Initiative for the Greater Los Angeles Area"

Rank #41 1 2 3 4 5  4.3 25 votes	“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.”  - Lyndon Baines Johnson

Rank #42 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 6 votes	“Listening to good models of fluent reading, students can learn how a reader's voice can help text make sense.”  - M.R. Kuhn & S.A. Stahl, "Fluency: A Review of Development and Remedial Practices" (2003)

Rank #43 1 2 3 4 5  4.1 14 votes	“Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.”  - Madonna (1991)

Rank #44 1 2 3 4 5  4.2 16 votes	“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”  - Mahatma Gandhi

Rank #45 1 2 3 4 5  4.8 9 votes	“Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.”  - Marcel Proust

Rank #46 1 2 3 4 5  4.4 73 votes	“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”  - Margaret Fuller