“If you can read this, thank a teacher.” 

^{- Anonymous teacher}

“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” 

^{- Antisthenes}

“Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.” 

^{- Aristippus}

“We read to know we are not alone.” 

^{- C.S. Lewis}

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” 

^{- Confucius}

“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!"}

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

^{- Elbert Hubbard}

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.” 

^{- Elizabeth Hardwick}

“Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.” 

^{- Emilie Buchwald}

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

^{- Frederick Douglass}

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

^{- Gandhi (1869-1948)}

“You cannot help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.” 

^{- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf}

“Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.” 

^{- Goethe}

“Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.” 

^{- Grace Slick}

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

^{- Groucho Marx}

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” 

^{- Groucho Marx}

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

^{- Harry S. Truman}

“Never judge a book by its movie.” 

^{- J.W. Eagan}

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

^{- Jacqueline Kennedy}

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

^{- Jerry Seinfield}

“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}

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

^{- Joseph Brodsky}

“To teach is to learn twice.” 

^{- Joseph Joubert}

“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}

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

^{- Lord Henry P. Brougham}

“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"}

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

^{- Lyndon Baines Johnson}

“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)}

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” 

^{- Mahatma Gandhi}

“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}

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

^{- Margaret Fuller}

“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}

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

^{- Mark Twain}

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

^{- Mark Twain}

“Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.” 

^{- Mary Schmich}

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

^{- Mason Cooley}

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

^{- Maud Casey}

“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” 

^{- May Ellen Chase}

“When I worked on my game, that's what I thought about. When it happened, I set another goal, a reasonable, manageable goal that I could realistically achieve if I worked hard enough. I guess I approached it with the end in mind. I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and I focused on getting there.” 

^{- Michael Jordan}

“The major accomplishment of analyzing illiteracy so far has been the listing of symptoms: the decrease in functional literacy; a general degradation of writing skills and reading comprehension; an alarming increase of packaged language (cliches used in speeches, canned messages); and a general tendency to substitute visual media (especially television and video) for written language.” 

^{- Mihai Nadin "The Civilization of Illiteracy"}

“To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.” 

^{- Munshi Premchand}

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

^{- Plato}

“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}

“A man is known by the books he reads.” 

^{- Ralph Waldo Emerson}

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

^{- Ray Bradbury}

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

^{- Richard Steele}

“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}

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.” 

^{- Robert Frost}

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

^{- Samuel Johnson}

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” 

^{- W. B. Yeats}

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” 

^{- W. Fusselman}

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

^{- Walt Disney}

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

^{- Will Durant}

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

^{- William Phelps}