Book reading Quote by Francis Beauchesne Thornton

“Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates…

— Stringfellow Barr

“The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to…

— Rachel Cohen

“Of course, there is a portion of reading quite indispensable to a wise man. History and exact science he must learn by laborious reading.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Great institutions are built by illiterates and mismanaged by the celebrated academic class.”

— Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche

“Some colleges have become institutions that no longer thrive on education, but rather on the suffering, expense, toil, and insecurity of their students, as…

— Loren Mayshark

“That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the work of establishing it, or…

— John Cotton Dana

“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

“The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed you with…

— Charles Bukowski

“A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. There is, of course, the problem of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library…

— Ray Bradbury

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of…

— John Cage

“Colleges are supposed to be the calm environment in which educated men and women determine what’s true and what’s false, and where they learn…

— Thomas M. Nichols