--- title: "6 Born Read Quotes by 5 authors" description: "Browse 6 Born Read quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Born Read sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/walter-scott-775_born_and-better-had-they-ne-er-been-born-who_22113.png" --- > [And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-scott/and-better-had-they-ne-er-been-born-who-read-to-doubt-or-read-to-scorn/) [Walter Scott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-scott/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/walter-scott-775_born_and-better-had-they-ne-er-been-born-who_22113.png) > [“Mattie loves to read. Was born to read. I love to listen to Mattie read. The way her voice rises two octaves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-rodrigues/mattie-loves-to-read-was-born-to-read-i-love-to-listen-to-mattie-read/) [Carmen Rodrigues](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carmen-rodrigues/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/916/carmen-rodrigues-50780_books_mattie-loves-to-read-was-born-to-read-i_238559.jpg) > [We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/we-human-beings-were-never-born-to-read-we-invented-reading-and-then/) [Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/maryanne-wolf-10802_books_we-human-beings-were-never-born-to-read_392768.jpg) > [“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grabe/we-were-never-born-to-read-human-beings-invented-reading-only-a-few/) [Grabe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grabe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/grabe-94315_thousand-years_we-were-never-born-to-read-human-beings_779394.jpg) > [After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/after-many-years-of-research-on-how-the-human-brain-learns-to-read-i/) [Maryanne Wolf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maryanne-wolf/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44d/maryanne-wolf-10802_born_after-many-years-of-research-on-how-the_1077459.jpg) > [“The opportunity to develop competencies may be handed to us in the form of a crisis, as was the case with Brooksley…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitney-johnson/the-opportunity-to-develop-competencies-may-be-handed-to-us-in-the/) [Whitney Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/whitney-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/whitney-johnson-37230_greek-mythology_the-opportunity-to-develop-competencies_2963443.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/born-read/#itemlist", "name": "Born Read Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Walter Scott" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-scott/and-better-had-they-ne-er-been-born-who-read-to-doubt-or-read-to-scorn/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/walter-scott-775_born_and-better-had-they-ne-er-been-born-who_22113.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/walter-scott-775_born_and-better-had-they-ne-er-been-born-who_22113.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/walter-scott-775_born_and-better-had-they-ne-er-been-born-who_22113.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.” — Walter Scott", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Mattie loves to read. Was born to read. I love to listen to Mattie read. The way her voice rises two octaves above everyone else's. The way the words collide-an endless train of sounds that doesn't require breath.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Carmen Rodrigues" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carmen-rodrigues/mattie-loves-to-read-was-born-to-read-i-love-to-listen-to-mattie-read/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/916/carmen-rodrigues-50780_books_mattie-loves-to-read-was-born-to-read-i_238559.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/916/carmen-rodrigues-50780_books_mattie-loves-to-read-was-born-to-read-i_238559.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/916/carmen-rodrigues-50780_books_mattie-loves-to-read-was-born-to-read-i_238559.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Mattie loves to read. Was born to read. I love to listen to Mattie read. The way her voice rises two octaves…” — Carmen Rodrigues", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maryanne Wolf" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/we-human-beings-were-never-born-to-read-we-invented-reading-and-then/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/maryanne-wolf-10802_books_we-human-beings-were-never-born-to-read_392768.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/maryanne-wolf-10802_books_we-human-beings-were-never-born-to-read_392768.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae4/maryanne-wolf-10802_books_we-human-beings-were-never-born-to-read_392768.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new…” — Maryanne Wolf", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very organization of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Grabe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grabe/we-were-never-born-to-read-human-beings-invented-reading-only-a-few/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/grabe-94315_thousand-years_we-were-never-born-to-read-human-beings_779394.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/grabe-94315_thousand-years_we-were-never-born-to-read-human-beings_779394.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/156/grabe-94315_thousand-years_we-were-never-born-to-read-human-beings_779394.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this…” — Grabe", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maryanne Wolf" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maryanne-wolf/after-many-years-of-research-on-how-the-human-brain-learns-to-read-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44d/maryanne-wolf-10802_born_after-many-years-of-research-on-how-the_1077459.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44d/maryanne-wolf-10802_born_after-many-years-of-research-on-how-the_1077459.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44d/maryanne-wolf-10802_born_after-many-years-of-research-on-how-the_1077459.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple…” — Maryanne Wolf", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The opportunity to develop competencies may be handed to us in the form of a crisis, as was the case with Brooksley Born, the first female president of the Law Review at Stanford, the first female to finish at the top of the class and an expert in commodities and futures. Charged with the oversight of the U.S. government’s Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) by the Clinton Administration, Born could foresee what would happen if there wasn’t more regulatory oversight in the multitrillion dollar derivatives markets. Yet no one in government or in the financial markets would listen; in 2008 alone, the U.S. market lost about $8 trillion in value. She has since been dubbed the “Credit Crisis Cassandra.” In Greek mythology, Cassandra was given both the gift of seeing the future and the curse of having no one believe her predictions. In the case of Brooksley Born, the attacks by very powerful people were harsh and unrelenting. She was right, while those around her were gravely wrong. Yet, when I listen to Born and read her interviews, there is no anger, no recrimination in her voice, only grace. Brooksley Born never would have chosen this situation. She recounts waking in a cold sweat many a night. She has learned from her trial by fire and we can learn from her. Sometimes we set out to develop competencies, sometimes we don’t. Either way, if we do something enough, we are likely to get good at it. As poet Emily Dickinson wrote, Luck is not chance— It’s toil— Fortune’s expensive smile Is earned.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Whitney Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/whitney-johnson/the-opportunity-to-develop-competencies-may-be-handed-to-us-in-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/whitney-johnson-37230_greek-mythology_the-opportunity-to-develop-competencies_2963443.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/whitney-johnson-37230_greek-mythology_the-opportunity-to-develop-competencies_2963443.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f1/whitney-johnson-37230_greek-mythology_the-opportunity-to-develop-competencies_2963443.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The opportunity to develop competencies may be handed to us in the form of a crisis, as was the case with…” — Whitney Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/born-read/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/born-read/", "name": "Born Read Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/born-read/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/674/walter-scott-775_born_and-better-had-they-ne-er-been-born-who_22113.png" }, "description": "Browse 6 Born Read quotes by 5 authors. Discover the best Born Read sayings and thoughts.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/born-read/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/born-read/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Born Read Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/born-read/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```