Education Quotes

""If you’re overthinking, write. If you’re underthinking, read.""

- Alex Wieckowski

""Read to collect the dots, write to connect them.""

- David Perell

""Reading can teach you the best of what others already know. Reflection can teach you the best of what only you can know.""

- James Clear

""Reading a book is among the most high-leverage activities on earth.""

- Greg McKeown

""The purpose of reading is not just raw knowledge. It’s that it is part of the human experience. It helps you find meaning, understand yourself, and make your life better.""

- Ryan Holiday

""Read books that are relevant to what you want to achieve and reading will never seem boring.""

- James Clear

""Reading speed is nothing more than signaling. Skim broadly to find something worth reading. Then dive in slowly and deeply. It’s not how fast you read but what you absorb that matters.""

- Shane Parrish

""Books are an investment, not an expense.""

- Alex Wieckowski

""Unless our reading includes serious thinking it is wasted time.""

- J. Oswald Sanders

""The books that make you feel dumb are often the ones that make you smarter.""

- Alex Wieckowski

""Books are more likely to change minds than conversations.""

- James Clear

""One sign you haven’t done enough reading is if you find yourself agreeing with whatever book you read last.""

- James Clear

""A book is a gift you can open again and again.""

- Garrison Keillor

""Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.""

- Kofi Annan

""Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.""

- Roald Dahl

""A children’s story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children’s story in the slightest.""

- C.S. Lewis

""Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.""

- Maya Angelou

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

- Harry Truman

""The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.""

- Dr. Seuss

""Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them.""

- Judy Blume

""Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.""

- Barack Obama

""I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.""

- Maya Angelou

""A child who carries a book with a bookmark in it is in two places at the same time.""

- Tony Abbott

""I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.""

- Robert Louis Stevenson

""A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.""

- George R.R. Martin

""Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.""

- Harper Lee

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

- Groucho Marx

""Classic’ – a book which people praise and don’t read.""

- Mark Twain

""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

""The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.""

- Benjamin Franklin