“ My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. ”
- Edward Gibbon- Copy
- 1.4K
“ A man ought to read just as his inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
- 2.1K
“ In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. ”
- Oliver Goldsmith- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ”
- John Locke- Copy
- 2.1K
“ It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. ”
- Johannes Kepler- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. ”
- G. M. Trevelyan- Copy
- 1.6K
“ He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. ”
- Arthur James Balfour- Copy
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“ If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2.9K
“ No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor is any pleasure so lasting. ”
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu- Copy
- 2K
“ I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
- 1.3K
“ In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 1K
“ What is twice read is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.9K
“ There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life. ”
- Walt Disney- Copy
- 1.4K
“ When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings. ”
- Harold Sydney Geneen- Copy
- 2.1K
“ I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
- 1.2K
“ That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ”
- Amos Bronson Alcott- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books, is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him. ”
- Edna St. Vincent Millay- Copy
- 3.9K
“ The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. ”
- Dr. Seuss- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 3.1K
“ If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.8K
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