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“One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."”

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Author:John M. Tyler

“I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.”

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Author:James Truslow Adams

“Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.”

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Author:Gustave Flaubert

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”

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Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“Our American past always speaks to us with two voices: the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him? Citizens ask, What do they mean to us? Historians are trained to seek the original meaning; all of us want to know the present meaning.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book

“A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

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Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.”

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Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“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.”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”

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Author:Theodore Parker

“We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.”

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Author:John Naisbitt

“Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.”

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Author:William Matthews

“Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.”

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Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.”

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Author:Lord Chesterfield

“My mother and my father were illiterate immigrants from Russia. When I was a child they were constantly amazed that I could go to a building and take a book on any subject. They couldn't believe this access to knowledge we have here in America. They couldn't believe that it was free.”

“Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.”

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Author:Alvin Toffler

“One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.”

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Author:Lord Byron

“At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at that time. By the time I was six I remember him buying books for me. ... I think I was eight, he bought me a three-inch telescope on a brass mounting. ... So, as far back as I can remember, I had an early interest in science in general, astronomy in particular.”

“The big idea we start with is: "How is the genome interpreted, and how are stable decisions that affect gene expression inherited from one cell to the next?" This is one of the most competitive areas of molecular biology at the moment, and the students are reading papers that in some instances were published this past year. As a consequence, one of the most common answers I have to give to their questions is, "We just don't know."”

“Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.”

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Author:Ray Bradbury

“It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.”

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Author:Sutton E. Griggs

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”

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Author:Confucius

“No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.”

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Author:Bob Proctor

“If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.”

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Book:Sybil, Or, The Two Nations

Source: Sybil, Or, The Two Nations