Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

I woke up one morning and realized that what I wanted to say to everyone - children, young people, adults - was: Read for your life.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

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

It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

Few things are as essential as education.

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

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

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.

The word liberal distinguishes whatever nourishes the mind and spirit from the training which is merely practical or professional or from the trivialities which are no training at all.

My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.

The end of reading is not more books but more life.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

Education is the most important thing you can have.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

A man without education is an incomplete being.

Without education we can’t achieve anything.

People are beginning to realize that education is power, that education is money, that education is an opportunity.

I just wanted to have an education.

I try to read as much as I can.

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.)