Education Quotes

""There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.""

- Walt Disney

""We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.""

- Jules Verne

""My alma mater was books, a good library…. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.""

- Malcolm X

""Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.""

- George Bernard Shaw

""Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.""

- Abraham Lincoln

""The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can’t.""

- Mark Twain

""I guess there are never enough books.""

- John Steinbeck

""If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.""

- J.K. Rowling

""There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands away.""

- Emily Dickinson

""Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.""

- Jim Rohn

""Books are the training weights of the mind.""

- Epictetus

""Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.""

- John Maxwell

""If we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is useless and vain.""

- J. Oswald Sanders

""The paradox of reading: The books you read will profoundly change you even though you’ll forget the vast majority of what you read.""

- David Perell

""Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.""

- E.B. White

""Reading an hour a day is only 4% of your day. But that 4% will put you in the top of your field within 10 years. Find the time.""

- Patrick Bet David

""The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.""

- Descartes

""One of the greatest gifts adults can give—to their offspring and to their society—is to read to children.""

- Carl Sagan

""You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.""

- Strickland Gillian

""Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.""

- Kate DiCamillo

""Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.""

- Vera Nazarian

""Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.""

- Groucho Marx

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

- May Ellen Chase

""To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.""

- Victor Hugo

""It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading.""

- Katherine Patterson

""When you learn to read you will be born again…and you will never be quite so alone again.""

- Rumer Godden

""We read to know we are not alone.""

- C.S. Lewis

""So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.""

- William James

""There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.""

- Jacqueline Kennedy

"Don’t be afraid to reach for the stars. I believe a good education can take you anywhere on Earth and beyond."

- Ellen Ochoa