Melvil Dewey Quotes

I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?

Reading is very good. And you can quote me!

Reading is not optional.

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.

Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible

One must, I think, be struck more and more the longer one lives, to find how much in our present society a man's life of each day depends for its solidity and value upon whether he reads during that day, and far more still on what he reads during it.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.

Reading maketh a full man.

Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you

Reading is the basics for all learning.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

The man who has not the habit of reading is imprisoned in his immediate world.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.