Elbert Hubbard Quotes

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

My alma mater was books, a good library.

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.

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

No society has ever been great that didn't honor and foster learning.

Education will become the coin of the realm.

One of the most important features of the later stages of capitalist civilization is the vigorous expansion of the educational apparatus and particularly of the facilities for higher education.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

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.

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

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

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.

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

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

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.