“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.-“ John Locke
“Travel stories teach geography; insect stories lead the child into natural science; and so on. The teacher, in short, can use reading to introduce her pupils to the most varied subjects; and the moment they have been thus started, they can go on to any limit guided by the single passion for reading.”- Maria Montessori
“Most adults, unlike most children, understand the difference between a book that will hold them spellbound for a rainy Sunday afternoon and a book that will put them in touch with a part of themselves they didn’t even know existed.”- Mark Haddon
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”- Arthur Schopenhauer
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”- Confucius
“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don’t see them.”-Elie Wiesel
“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
