“Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise”

Last update Sept. 28, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise" by Mark Twain?

Mark Twain photo

Mark Twain637

American author and humorist 1835–1910

Related quotes

“Love is the only key to open the doors of paradise.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“There is how we
were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing
which doors to open, and which to close.”

Karen White (1964) American writer

Source: The Time Between

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.
Voces (1943)

“When one door is closed, many more is open.”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
Song lyrics

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

We Bereaved (1929)

“This is the shade of meaning: the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Variant: A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open.
Source: Les Misérables

“When one door closes, another opens… into another room, another space, other happenings. There are many doors to open and close in our lives. Some doors we leave ajar, where we hope and plan to return. Some doors are slammed shut decisively—"No more of that!" Some are closed regretfully, softly—"It was good, but it is over." Departures entail arrivals somewhere else. Closing a door, leaving it behind, means opening onto new vistas and ventures, new possibilities, new incentives.”

Helen Nearing (1904–1995) American writer

Source: Loving and Leaving the Good Life (1992), p. 1

“When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.”

Fernando de Rojas La Celestina

Act XV.
La Celestina (1499)

“The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Related topics