Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.

I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

We think about education as a stepping stone into a higher socio-economic class, into a better job. And it does do those things. But I don't think that's what it really is. I experienced it as getting access to different ideas and perspectives and using them to construct my own mind.

Any educated person recognizes that curiosity and creativity aren't just important; they are among the essential human activities.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on Life, you could read Dianetics. And I think if you really read it, you’ll understand it, but unless you do, you’ll speculate. And I think that’s a mistake to do that.

The wiser a man becomes, the more he will read, and those who are wisest read most.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

No matter how vast your knowledge or how modest, it is your own mind that has to acquire it.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Education forms the common mind.

I like reading books that provide you with knowledge that you previously didn't have. And books you have a chance to grow as a human being after reading them.

In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow. The more one expands, the larger their aims.

Read for fun, read for information, read in order to understand yourself and other people with quite different ideas. Learn about the world beyond your door. Learn to be compassionate and grow in wisdom. Books can help us in all these ways.

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it. If you won the Irish Sweepstakes and bought a house that needed furniture would you fill it with bits and pieces of rubbish? Your mind is your house and if you fill it with rubbish from the cinemas it will rot in your head. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.