Reading Quotes

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
John Wooden

Old, Keep, Books

I spend a lot of time reading.
Bill Gates

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver

Nature, God, Person

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
Francis Bacon

Writing, Ready, Full

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
Bill Gates

Time, Sharing, Fantastic

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
Mike Tyson

Good, Read, Dangerous

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X

Life, Good, Rest

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
Mike Tyson

Time, Book, Revolution

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Rene Descartes

Good, Past, Minds

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 continually be part of unanimity.
Christopher Morley

Mind, Bad, Thinking

Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Writing, Hard, Easy

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.
John Locke

Education, Good, Him

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda

Beauty, Great, Truth

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman

Great, Men, Victory

I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?
Ray Bradbury

Girl, Short, Her

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John Locke

Knowledge, Mind, Thinking

The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Greatest, Book

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Pleasure, Cow, Brute

A book worth reading is worth buying.
John Ruskin

Book, Worth, Buying

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Someone, Thinking, Else

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Trouble, Known, Hour

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Aleister Crowley

Education, Mind, Worth

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
Mason Cooley

Writing, Thinking, Different

I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
Charles de Montesquieu

Known, Hour, Distress

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
John Ruskin

Life, Short, Few

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth

Good, Home, Bad

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James Joyce

Writing, Why, Reason

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Isaac Asimov

Life, Men, Long

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
Henny Youngman

Read, Gave, Drinking

The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
Samuel Butler

Science, Light, Comparison

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