Quotations and Sayings about Reading: Books and Authors:
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
- Dr. Seuss
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” - Margaret Fuller
“ Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting” - Aldous Huxley
“ We read to know we are not alone.” - C.S. Lewis
“ To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” - Victor Hugo
Educating oneself, through the reading of books, is the key to the liberation of the mind.
- Lamar Cole
“ The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”- Elizabeth Hardwick
“ Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.” - Charles Scribner, Jr.
“ Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” - Jean Rhys
“ A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints” - Wilfred Peterson
Lamar Cole
Reading is to the mind like running is to the body. If a person wants to exercise their mind, read a good book.
Henry David Thoreau
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
H. G. Wells
Good books are the warehouses of ideas.
Charles de Montesquieu
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Ezra Pound
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Sir Richard Steele
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
“I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.” Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.” - Angela Carter
“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.” - Arthur Helps
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.” - Descartes
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
- Dr. Seuss
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” - Margaret Fuller
“ Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting” - Aldous Huxley
“ We read to know we are not alone.” - C.S. Lewis
“ To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” - Victor Hugo
Educating oneself, through the reading of books, is the key to the liberation of the mind.
- Lamar Cole
“ The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”- Elizabeth Hardwick
“ Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.” - Charles Scribner, Jr.
“ Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.” - Jean Rhys
“ A man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints” - Wilfred Peterson
Lamar Cole
Reading is to the mind like running is to the body. If a person wants to exercise their mind, read a good book.
Henry David Thoreau
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
H. G. Wells
Good books are the warehouses of ideas.
Charles de Montesquieu
I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Ezra Pound
With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Sir Richard Steele
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
“I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.” Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.” - Abraham Lincoln
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.” - Angela Carter
“Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.” - Arthur Helps
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.” - Descartes
