#books

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

Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#education #learning #reading #scholorship #education

It appeared clear to me - partly because of the lies that filled my history textbooks - that the intent of formal education was to inculcate obedience to a social order that did not deserve my loyalty. Defiance seemed the only dignified response to the adult world. ↗

— Timothy B. Tyson

#edcuation #history #inculcating #lies #loyalty

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#books #education #learning #education

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. ↗

— Eric Burns

#education #education

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#days #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#friendship

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#reading #experience

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#experience #hobbies #reading #travel #experience