All time Quote by James Russell Lowell

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

— Eric Thomas

Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page,…

— Anonymous

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream. Reading not only educates, but is relaxing and allows you to…

— Eric Ripert

Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the whole world…

— James Russell Lowell

Reading was a way to make friends or enemies, a way to discover how all these different people exist in the world and to…

— Amy Poehler

We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for…

— Joan Bauer

The importance of reading, for me, is that it allows you to dream.

— Eric Ripert

Reading opens your mind and helps you understand and empathize with people who are unlike you and outside your breadth of experience.

— George Pelecanos

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired…

— Donald Hall

Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I…

— Sven Birkerts

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature…

— Nicola Griffith