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Rank #1
 4.2
253 votes

If you can read this, thank a teacher. 

- Anonymous teacher

Rank #2
 4.3
27 votes

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. 

- B.B. King

Rank #3
 4.3
186 votes

We read to know we are not alone. 

- C.S. Lewis

Rank #4
 4.2
61 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 #5
 4.1
68 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 #6
 4.3
178 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 #7
 4.1
81 votes

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries. 

- Descartes

Rank #8
 4.6
265 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 #9
 4.1
117 votes

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. 

- Edmund Burke

Rank #10
 4.1
89 votes

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. 

- Elbert Hubbard

Rank #11
 4.1
142 votes

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. 

- Elizabeth Hardwick

Rank #12
 4.2
92 votes

Children are made readers on the laps of their parents. 

- Emilie Buchwald

Rank #13
 4.4
121 votes

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free. 

- Frederick Douglass

Rank #14
 4.6
66 votes

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 

- Gandhi (1869-1948)

Rank #15
 4.3
55 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 #16
 4.2
74 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 #17
 4.5
59 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 #18
 4.4
141 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 #19
 4.3
125 votes

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. 

- Harry S. Truman

Rank #20
 4.3
58 votes

Never judge a book by its movie. 

- J.W. Eagan

Rank #21
 4.3
72 votes

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all. 

- Jacqueline Kennedy

Rank #22
 4.4
43 votes

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. 

- Jerry Seinfield

Rank #23
 4.5
105 votes

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. 

- Joseph Brodsky

Rank #24
 4.4
79 votes

To teach is to learn twice. 

- Joseph Joubert

Rank #25
 4.2
69 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 #26
 4.2
20 votes

Fluency is important because it provides a bridge between word recognition and comprehension. 

- Kelly L. Briggs, "Reading in the Classroom" (2003)

Rank #27
 4.2
40 votes

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything. 

- Lord Henry P. Brougham

Rank #28
 4.4
97 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 #29
 4.3
96 votes

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

- Lyndon Baines Johnson

Rank #30
 4.3
151 votes

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. 

- Margaret Fuller

Rank #31
 4.3
37 votes

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has. 

- Margaret Mead

Rank #32
 4.6
111 votes

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

- Mark Twain

Rank #33
 4.4
92 votes

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. 

- Mark Twain

Rank #34
 4.4
117 votes

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere. 

- Mary Schmich

Rank #35
 4.4
73 votes

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. 

- Mason Cooley

Rank #36
 4.3
64 votes

I was born with a reading list I will never finish. 

- Maud Casey

Rank #37
 4.3
34 votes

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow. 

- Plato

Rank #38
 4.1
63 votes

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens. 

- President Clinton on International Literacy Day, September 8th 1994

Rank #39
 4.1
71 votes

A man is known by the books he reads. 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rank #40
 4.3
72 votes

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. 

- Ray Bradbury

Rank #41
 4.3
66 votes

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. 

- Richard Steele

Rank #42
 4.4
95 votes

So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall. 

- Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Rank #43
 4.4
77 votes

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

- Samuel Johnson

Rank #44
 4.1
25 votes

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. 

- Samuel Johnson

Rank #45
 4.1
64 votes

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. 

- W. Fusselman

Rank #46
 4.2
71 votes

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. 

- Walt Disney

Rank #47
 4.1
42 votes

What is reading but silent conversation? 

- Walter Savage Landor

Rank #48
 4.2
38 votes

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. 

- Will Durant

Rank #49
 4.2
77 votes

I divide all readers into two classes: Those who read to remember and those who read to forget. 

- William Phelps

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