#Quotes About How #Books And #Reading Enrich Your Mind And Life

“It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.”

~Denis Parsons Burkitt

 

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“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”

~Tomie dePaola

  

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“To become smart you need to read just ten books, but to find those ten, you need to read thousands.”

~Unknown

  

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“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”

~Roald Dahl

  

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 “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”

~Confucius

  

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“Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.”

~Spanish Proverb

  

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“Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.”

~William Feather

  

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“Books are the training weights of the mind”

~Seneca

  

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“If we didn’t have libraries, many people thirsty for knowledge would dehydrate.”

~Megan Jo Tetrick, age 12

  

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“A library is a hospital for the mind.”

~Anonymous

  

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

~Cicero

 

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“I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.”

~Gary Paulsen

  

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“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue – you sell him a whole new life.”

~Christopher Morley

  

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“Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.”

~Mortimer J. Adler