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Top 15 Maryanne Wolf Quotes (2025 Update)

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “Reading changes our lives, and our lives change our reading.”

1. “Reading changes our lives, and our lives change our reading.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “The Bureaus of Prisons in states across America know this well; many of them project the number of prison beds they will need in the future based on third- or fourth-grade reading statistics.”

2. “The Bureaus of Prisons in states across America know this well; many of them project the number of prison beds they will need in the future based on third- or fourth-grade reading statistics.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “Wisdom, I conclude, is not contemplation alone, 28 not action alone, but contemplation in action. – John Dunne.”

3. “Wisdom, I conclude, is not contemplation alone, 28 not action alone, but contemplation in action. – John Dunne.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “Put in more sobering terms, only one-third of twenty-first-century American children now read with sufficient understanding and speed at the exact age when their future learning depends on it. The fourth grade represents a Maginot Line between learning to read and learning to use reading to think and learn. More disturbing altogether, close to half.”

4. “Put in more sobering terms, only one-third of twenty-first-century American children now read with sufficient understanding and speed at the exact age when their future learning depends on it. The fourth grade represents a Maginot Line between learning to read and learning to use reading to think and learn. More disturbing altogether, close to half.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing, we never come back quite the same; sometimes we’re inspired, sometimes saddened, but we are always enriched. Through this exposure we learn both the commonality and the uniqueness of our own thoughts – that we are individuals, but not alone.”

5. “When we pass over into how a knight thinks, how a heroine behaves, and how an evildoer can regret or deny wrongdoing, we never come back quite the same; sometimes we’re inspired, sometimes saddened, but we are always enriched. Through this exposure we learn both the commonality and the uniqueness of our own thoughts – that we are individuals, but not alone.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “Before two years of age, human interaction and physical interaction with books and print are the best entry into the world of oral and written language and internalized knowledge, the building blocks of the later reading circuit.”

6. “Before two years of age, human interaction and physical interaction with books and print are the best entry into the world of oral and written language and internalized knowledge, the building blocks of the later reading circuit.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story. How often this happens, or fails to happen, in the first five years of childhood turns out to be one of the best predictors of later reading.”

7. “Learning to read begins the first time an infant is held and read a story. How often this happens, or fails to happen, in the first five years of childhood turns out to be one of the best predictors of later reading.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “The end of reading development doesn’t exist; the unending story of reading moves ever forward, leaving the eye, the tongue, the word, the author for a new place from which the “truth breaks forth, fresh and green,” changing the brain and the reader every time.”

8. “The end of reading development doesn’t exist; the unending story of reading moves ever forward, leaving the eye, the tongue, the word, the author for a new place from which the “truth breaks forth, fresh and green,” changing the brain and the reader every time.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “The psychologist Howard Gardner used the MIT scholar Seymour Papert’s famous description of the child’s “grasshopper mind”6 to describe the spasmodic way our digital young now typically “hop from point to point, distracted from the original task.”

9. “The psychologist Howard Gardner used the MIT scholar Seymour Papert’s famous description of the child’s “grasshopper mind”6 to describe the spasmodic way our digital young now typically “hop from point to point, distracted from the original task.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “There are many things that would be lost if we slowly lose the cognitive patience to immerse ourselves in the worlds created by books and the lives and feelings of the “friends” who inhabit them.”

10. “There are many things that would be lost if we slowly lose the cognitive patience to immerse ourselves in the worlds created by books and the lives and feelings of the “friends” who inhabit them.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “I still bought many books, but more and more I read in them, rather than being whisked away by them. At some time impossible to pinpoint, I had begun to read more to be informed than to be immersed, much less to be transported.”

11. “I still bought many books, but more and more I read in them, rather than being whisked away by them. At some time impossible to pinpoint, I had begun to read more to be informed than to be immersed, much less to be transported.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “We have become so inundated with information that the average person in the United States now reads daily the same number of words as is found in many a novel. Unfortunately, this form of reading is rarely continuous, sustained, or concentrated; rather, the average 34 gigabytes consumed by most of us represent one spasmodic burst of activity after another.”

12. “We have become so inundated with information that the average person in the United States now reads daily the same number of words as is found in many a novel. Unfortunately, this form of reading is rarely continuous, sustained, or concentrated; rather, the average 34 gigabytes consumed by most of us represent one spasmodic burst of activity after another.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “The world of fantasy presents a conceptually perfect holding environment who are just leaving the more concrete stages of cognitive processing... as fluent comprehending readers learn to enter into the lives of imagined heroes and heroines, along the Mississippi or through a wardrobe portal.”

13. “The world of fantasy presents a conceptually perfect holding environment who are just leaving the more concrete stages of cognitive processing... as fluent comprehending readers learn to enter into the lives of imagined heroes and heroines, along the Mississippi or through a wardrobe portal.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “Biologically and intellectually, reading allows the species to go “beyond the information given” to create endless thoughts most beautiful and wonderful.”

14. “Biologically and intellectually, reading allows the species to go “beyond the information given” to create endless thoughts most beautiful and wonderful.”

— Maryanne Wolf

Maryanne Wolf Quote: “Indeed, as some historians observe, the changing relationships of readers to text over time can be seen as one index of the history of thought.”

15. “Indeed, as some historians observe, the changing relationships of readers to text over time can be seen as one index of the history of thought.”

— Maryanne Wolf

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