Tuesdays with Tiffany “Reading is Wisdom”

 Each of the following quotes is one person’s experience of the rewards he or she found in reading.  As we go through the quotes, pick 2 that you like, found interesting, laughed at, or made you think. Put each one in the “thumbs up” section of your paper.  Choose 2 quotes that you disagreed with, found confusing, didn’t like, or didn’t understand. Put each one in the “thumbs down” section of your paper.

Good readers have a greater tolerance for failure. - Anonymous

A person who doesn’t read is no better off than a person who can’t read. - Mark Twain

Nothing can stop a person who wants to be educated. Nothing can help a person who doesn’t. - Anonymous

We don’t always choose the books we read…sometimes they choose us. - Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter

When you finish reading a book you are a more interesting person. - Anonymous

What’s worse than burning books? Not reading them. - Ray Bradbury

We read to know that we are not alone. - Anonymous

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future. - Jim Bishop

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Edmund Burke

Readers may be divided into four classes: 1. Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. - Scott Corbett

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - Walt Disney

Never judge a book by its movie. - J. W. Eagan

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. - Desiderius Erasmus

Read in order to live. - Gustave Flaubert

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day. - Jean Fritz