Mortimer Adler Quotes

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

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

Reading is the basics for all learning.

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

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

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

My mum taught me how to read before I went to kindergarden, I always thought that being able to read provided lightness, help to dispel darkness, ignorance and stupidity.

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

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

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.

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

Read in order to live.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

Reading is a huge part of life.

Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.