"Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting."

Knowledge, Reading, Empowerment, Growth

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"Everyone who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves to multiply the ways in which they exist to make their life full significant and interesting."

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"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"A library is chamber of treasures."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"If we knew all the answers, we won't ask questions."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Answers, Questions, Research, Learning

"In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Books are sacred wisdom."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"In the pages of a book, we find greatest solitude."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Book, Solitude, Solace, Reading

"By reading, we will know the minds of great soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Getting to know who you are is the most essential information that you can find out about yourself."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"You need to know the constituency you belong to...and that is revealed by your constituents. When your constituents are speaking in public and making of stories, your constituency can be "journalism"."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Knowledge, Constituency, Journalism, Public

"If you eagerly search, you will find what you seek."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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Explore more quotes by Aldous Huxley

"So the journey is over and I am back again where I started, richer by much experience and poorer by many exploded convictions, many perished certainties. For convictions and certainties are too often the concomitants of ignorance. Those who like to feel that they are always right and who attach a high importance to their own opinions should stay at home. When one is traveling, convictions are mislaid as easily as spectacles; but unlike spectacles, they are not easily replaced."

Travel

"There was a thing called Heaven, but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."

Religion

"For until this morning I had known contemplation only in its humbler, its more ordinary forms - as discursive thinking; as a rapt absorption in poetry or painting or music, as a patient waiting upon those inspirations, without which even the prosiest writer cannot hope to accomplish anything; as occasional glimpses, in nature, of Wordsworth's 'something far more deeply interfused'; as systematic silence leading, sometimes, to hints of an 'obscure knowledge'. But now I knew contemplation at its height."

Contemplation

"Mon Dieu, la vie est par trop moche."

Despair

"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."

Travel

"Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness."

Happiness

"To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."

Dogs

"The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."

Age

"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are."

Work

"What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure."

Time