Quotes for the Classroom

There is nothing that I love more than a good quote.  I often use quotes as a way to introduce a lesson or spark a morning check-in.  Enjoy.

Here are a few of my favourites on the topics under the umbrella of literacy!

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
― Voltaire

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
― Margaret Fuller

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

“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

– Edmund Burke

“My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.”
― Abigail Adams

“No two persons ever read the same book.”

– Edmund Wilson

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
― Jules Renard

“Half of writing history is hiding the truth.”
― Joss Whedon

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It’s only words… unless they’re true.”
― David Mamet

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

“The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.”
― Voltaire

“Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.”
― Socrates