Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
– Joseph Addison
Read widely, think broadly, judge wisely.
– Dr T.P.Chia
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
– Groucho Marx
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
– Margaret Fuller
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.
– George R.R. Martin
It’s hopeless! Tomorrow there will be even more books I should have read than there are today.
– Ashleigh Brilliant
Thinking is more powerful than talking. Reading is more enlightening than seeing.
– Dr T.P.Chia
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
– Oscar Wilde
A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
– George R.R. Martin
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
– Harper Lee
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
– George R.R. Martin
The more you read, the more you learn, the more you learn, the smarter you are.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Think before you speak. Read before you think.
– Fran Lebowitz
The world was hers for the reading.
– Betty Smith
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
– Franz Kafka
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
– Mason Cooley
Reading makes a full man, writing a precise man.
– Francis Bacon
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
– C.S. Lewis
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
– Franz Kafka
Read books, and you will go places.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
– Joseph Brodsky
Reading science, math, and philosophy one hour per day will likely put you at the upper echelon of human success within seven years.
– Naval Ravikant
Reading makes a man full.
– Francis Bacon
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
– Bertrand Russell
Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.
– William Faulkner
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
– Albert Einstein
Reading one book is like reading one potato chip.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
– Japanese Proverb
The food we eat feeds our body but the novels we read feed our mind.
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
– C.S. Lewis
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
– Joseph Addison
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
– Henry David Thoreau
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
– W. Somerset Maugham
“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read.
– Virginia Woolf
My workout is reading in bed until my arms hurt.
Slow reading, most enjoyable reading. Slow learning, deepest understanding. Slow to conclusions, deepest thinking. Rushing can make you waste time and life.
There is no enjoyment like reading.
The art of reading, as of learning, is this: … to retain the essential, to forget the nonessential.
– Adolf Hitler
My best, and only, bff is my books. They won’t judge me, and they tell me about all they are. No one can tell a story as good as my books can. Sure, a movie can show me people trying to be my book, but we all know they are only doing it to get cash. Stop watching a movie, and start reading a fiction novel!!!
If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
– Stephen King
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.
– Robert Frost
Read deeply. Stay open. Continue to wonder.
– Austin Kleon
Life is too short to read a bad book.
– James Joyce
Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.
– Adolf Hitler
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
– Edmund Burke
When I wasn’t working, the weekends would usually find me alone in an empty apartment, making do with the company of books.
– Barack Obama
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
– Ray Bradbury
I like big books and I can not lie.
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
– Aaron Swartz
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
– Thomas Carlyle
The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
– Rene Descartes
Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
– P. J. O’Rourke
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
– William Hazlitt
The greatest gift is a passion for reading.
– Edmund Burke
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.
– Stephen Hawking
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
– Haruki Murakami
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
The wise man reads both books and life itself.
– Lin Yutang
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
– Thomas Wolfe
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don’t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.
– John Steinbeck
Reading… a vacation for the mind….
– Dave Barry
If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.
– Lord Byron
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
– Jane Smiley
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
– Oscar Wilde
The mere brute pleasure of reading – the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
– Lord Chesterfield
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don’t read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
– Garrison Keillor
Reading brings us unknown friends.
– Honoré de Balzac
A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer.
– Anthony Liccione
We read to know that we are not alone.
– William Nicholson
I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
A good reading strengthens the soul.
– Toba Beta
Friend: What’s that book about?
Me: *handing my friend the book* Here, read it.
If you lay in your bed at night & haven’t learned anything new that day. Get out of the bed & read a book.
People don’t read any more. It’s a sad state of affairs. Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?
– Lemmy Kilmister
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
– Bill Gates
Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
– Carlos Fuentes
Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
– Mary Ann Shaffer
Read, think, apply, get feedback, repeat. Those who iterate fast today will be leaders tomorrow.
– Maxime Lagacé
A good book has no ending.
– R.D. Cumming
One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you’ve already finished it.
– Franklin P. Jones
A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself.
– Jane Austen
Our high respect for a well- read man is praise enough of literature.
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
– Mason Cooley
With exercising we keep our bodies healthy and with reading we exercise our brains.
– Sipho P Nkosi
Why do schoolchildren hate reading? Just look at what they’re made to read.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading.
– Emilie and Stephanie
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
– Charles Dudley Warner
Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
– John Locke
A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.
– Jeremy Collier
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
– Charles Caleb Colton
The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.
– George Orwell
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
– Mary Worley Montagu
He that doesn’t read has no advantage over the one that cannot read.
Reading means borrowing.
– Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
– J. Hudson Taylor
Have read little and understood less.
– James Joyce
A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.
– Che Guevara
It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.
– Jules Renard
All of the smartest people I’ve met, regardless of where they received their formal education, were mostly self-taught, incredibly curious and voracious readers.
– Jim O’Shaughnessy
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
– Joseph Addison
To be content with success, you have to be hungry for books.
– Sipho P Nkosi