"My people die for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)

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"My people die for lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
- Angela Carter

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.”
- Descartes

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
- Frederick Douglass

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
- Gaston Bachelard

“Read in order to live.”
- Gustave Flaubert

“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.”
- Lyndon Baines Johnson « less