Culture Quote by Anthony Doerr

When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.

— Lord Kelvin

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk…

— Kenneth Keniston

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those…

— Anna Quindlen

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.

— Stephen D. Krashen

I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but…

— Lord Kelvin

My reading ability is that of an 11-year-old. I've had a test. I was alright with numbers, but not reading.

— Jay Blades

Practically everybody (1) overweighs the stuff that can be numbered, because it yields to the statistical techniques they’re taught in academia, and (2) doesn’t…

— Charlie Munger

We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers

— Dustin Diamond

If I want to spend the rest of my life reading one day's output of information, which is about what it would take, OK…

— Harold Evans

We all know that reading is an invaluable life skill. It is vital for children in their education and as they take their place…

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

“We know that reading changes the way we think. Among other things, it helps us formulate thoughts that are more abstract, categorical, and logical.”

— The Penguin Press