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Hendaklah kamu semua mengusahakan ilmu pengetahuan itu sebelum dilenyapkan. Lenyapnya ilmu pengetahuan ialah dengan matinya orang-orang yang memberikan atau mengajarkannya. Seorang itu tidaklah dilahirkan langsung pandai, jadi ilmu pengetahuan itu pastilah harus dengan belajar.

( Ibnu Mas’ud r.a )

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Orang berilmu lebih utama daripada orang yang selalu berpuasa, solat dan berjihad. Kerana apabila mati orang berilmu, maka terdapatlah kekosongan dalam islam yang tidak dapat ditutup selain oleh penggantinya iaitu orang berilmu juga.

( Umar bin Khattab )

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Jika harus memilih antara ilmu dan harta, maka pilihlah ilmu. Kerana ilmu yang tepat mampu melahirkan harta.

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Jika orang-orang dulu malas menuntut ilmu, maka kita masih berkeliaran dihutan memburu haiwan dengan batu sebagai pisau.

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“Agama dan ilmu ibarat bayi kembar yang rapat dan melekat, dan jika memisahkan keduanya mengakibatkan keduanya mati. Maka, ilmu akan berkembang jika diwarnai dengan agama, dan agama akan kekal dan kukuh jika didukung oleh ilmu.” – Huxley

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“Kehormatan manusia adalah berdasarkan pengetahuannya. Orang-orang bijak adalah penyuluh yang menerangi jalan menuju kebenaran. Di dalam pengetahuan terletak kesempatan manusia bijak pandai untuk kekal diingati. Sementara manusia bisa mati, ilmunya hidup abadi.” – Khalifah Saidina Ali bin Abu Thalib

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“Kekuatan suatu negeri sama sekali tidak terletak pada besar atau kecilnya jumlah penduduk dan luas – sempitnya negerinya, tetapi pada nilainya dalam menguasai ilmu pengetahuan.” – Pramoedya Ananta Toer

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I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.

John Cheever

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I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.

Tina Smith

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Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty.  It should be offered to them as a precious gift. —Kate DiCamillo

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You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me.

Strickland Gillian

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Read. Everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Then when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like, just like a captain choosing a stickball team.

Karen Witemeyer

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Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. —Tomie dePaola

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Let us read and let us dance—two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire

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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
—S.I. Hayakawa

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Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life

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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

Margaret Fuller

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If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

Franois Mauriac

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You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.
Annie Proulx

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Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.
Roberto Bolao, 2666