#books

Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are disease-ridden, some deceitful; but others are a delight to behold, and many travel to foreign lands; some cry, some teach, others are lots of fun, they are excellent companions and all have individuality - Books are friends. What person has too many friends? ↗

— Gladys Hunt

#age

When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #famous-authors #famous-poets #literacy #national-poetry-month

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved. ↗

— Mark Twain

#education #mind #reading #education

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#education #reading #education

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown. ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#humour #education

Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining. ↗

— Robert Maynard Hutchins

#education #reading #education

I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself. ↗

— Tommy Lee

#education #jail #motley-crue #reading #tommy-lee

As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the nation’s educational frontiers read like the casualty reports from a lost war. ↗

— Lewis H. Lapham

#education

Donde no hay libros hace frío. Vale para las casas, las ciudades, los países. Un frío cataclismo, un páramo de amnesia ↗

— María Elena Walsh

#education #reading #education

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books. ↗

— Malcolm X

#books #education #education