Naomi Shihab Nye Quotes

Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary. We must not permit anything to stand between us and the book that could change our lives.

Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.

I was on my own at Wellesley, surrounded by a lot of young women who were motivated and intellectually curious. I started to read because I was required to do so for class, but I soon found myself enjoying the seclusion of the library. I came to see reading as an important way to learn about people, including myself.

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.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

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

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

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

Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.

Few things are as essential as education.

Education is everything. It's for everyone. We all need to be educated.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

I didn't read a book until I was 31 years old when I was diagnosed with dyslexia. Books terrified me. They made me nervous. Now I know you can travel to the bottom of the ocean or to outer space or anywhere in between without leaving your armchair, and I'm so, so sorry I couldn't read when I was younger.

Education is the key in so many ways.

We know that education is the key to unlocking human potential.

Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.

Your job is to meet the right people and read the right books.

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.

Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.