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100 Quotes on the Power of Reading (3)
  1. “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.” – George R.R. Martin
  2. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.” – Orhan Pamuk
  3. “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” – Stephen King
  4. “That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.” – Jhumpa Lahiri
  5. “It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” – Oscar Wilde
  6. “To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” – W. Somerset Maugham
  7. “Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
  8. “The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” – Rene Descartes
  9. “Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.” – Malorie Blackman
  10. “Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.” – Louis L’Amour
  11. “One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” – Carl Sagan
  12. “Books break the shackles of time — proof that humans can work magic.” – Carl Sagan
  13. “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” – C.S. Lewis
  14. “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” – Roald Dahl
  15. “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles William Eliot
  16. “A house without books is like a room without windows.” – Heinrich Mann
  17. “So many books, so little time.” – Frank Zappa
  18. “Books are the foundation of our culture, shaping our thoughts and guiding our actions.” – Anonymous
  19. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” – Mark Twain
  20. “Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  21. “The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” – Albert Einstein
  22. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Jorge Luis Borges
  23. “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
  24. “Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” – Mason Cooley
  25. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” – Walt Disney
  26. “The world was hers for the reading.” – Betty Smith
  27. “We read to know we are not alone.” – William Nicholson
  28. “I cannot live without books.” – Thomas Jefferson
  29. “Some books leave us free and some books make us free.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  30. “Think before you speak. Read before you think.” – Fran Lebowitz
  31. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.” – Dr. Seuss
  32. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
  33. “Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.” – Henry David Thoreau
  34. “The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.” – George Orwell
  35. “Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” – Abraham Lincoln
  36. “A book is a device to ignite the imagination.” – Alan Bennett
  37. “Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.” – E.P. Whipple
  38. “Books are the carriers of civilization.” – Barbara W. Tuchman
  39. “Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.” – Vera Nazarian
  40. “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” – Dr. Seuss
  41. “The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.” – Samuel Johnson
  42. “Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.” – Toni Morrison
  43. “Books wash away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Unknown
  44. “The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.” – James Bryce
  45. “Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.” – Anne Herbert
  46. “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” – Joseph Brodsky
  47. “A good book has no ending.” – R.D. Cumming
  48. “Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?” – Henry Ward Beecher
  49. “Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.” – Nicholson Baker
  50. “I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” – J.K. Rowling
  51. “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.” – Anna Quindlen
  52. “A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket.” – Chinese Proverb
  53. “Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.” – William Hazlitt
  54. “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” – Anna Quindlen
  55. “Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.” – Jeremy Collier
  56. “Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.” – Christopher Paolini
  57. “A book worth reading is worth buying.” – John Ruskin
  58. “Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.” – William Feather
  59. “We live for books.” – Umberto Eco
  60. “Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.” – Henry Ward Beecher
  61. “Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato
  62. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” – Honoré de Balzac
  63. “No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  64. “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” – J.K. Rowling
  65. “The best thing about reading is to escape your life, to be able to live hundreds or even thousands of different lives within one lifetime.” – Unknown
  66. “For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.” – Louis L’Amour
  67. “There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.” – May Ellen Chase
  68. “If a book is well written, I always find it too short.” – Jane Austen
  69. “There is no friend as loyal as a book.” – Ernest Hemingway
  70. “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  71. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn
  72. “I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.” – Emma Thompson
  73. “Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.” – Khaled Hosseini
  74. “Books are a hardbound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.” – Karl Lagerfeld
  75. “Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses.” – Albert Einstein
  76. “Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world.” – Walter Pater
  77. “A house filled with books is like a room with windows.” – Horace Mann
  78. “Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.” – Dave Eggers
  79. “Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.” – Barbara W. Tuchman
  80. “I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.” – Gary Paulsen
  81. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” – Joseph Addison
  82. “Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.” – James Russell Lowell
  83. “A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.” – Neil Gaiman
  84. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain
  85. “In my opinion, no one deserves to be buried without a good book.” – Anonymous
  86. “A great book will leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.” – William Styron
  87. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  88. “Books are a way to reach out and touch someone else’s mind.” – Anonymous
  89. “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” – Henry Ward Beecher
  90. “The best part about a book is that you can see it again and again.” – Anonymous
  91. “Books are the great equalizer.” – Anonymous
  92. “A book can change a life, and it can change the world.” – Anonymous
  93. “Reading is a form of therapy.” – Anonymous
  94. “Books open up new horizons and expand our understanding of the world.” – Anonymous
  95. “Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.” – Barack Obama
  96. “Books are the keys that unlock the doors to knowledge.” – Anonymous
  97. “A good book can take you to places you’ve never been.” – Anonymous
  98. “Every book is a journey into a different world.” – Anonymous
  99. “Books are a bridge between cultures.” – Anonymous
  100. “Reading is the key to unlocking your imagination.” – Anonymous
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