25 Quotes About Reading
1. "Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." (Francis Bacon) Click to tweet
2. "How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
3. "I started reading literature at 17 or 18, and i felt this extra beat to life." (Richard Ford) Click to tweet
4. "The more i read, the more i acquire, the more certain i am that i know nothing." (Voltaire) Click to tweet
5. "Shakespeare, dickens, mark twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers." (Lloyd Alexander) Click to tweet
6. "I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage." (Arthur Schopenhauer) Click to tweet
7. "Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy." (Brad Henry) Click to tweet
8. "Reading serves as a good escape when you’re in the middle of doing crazy things." (Carly Rae Jepsen) Click to tweet
9. "Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life." (Joseph Addison) Click to tweet
10. "Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." (Joseph Addison) Click to tweet
11. "With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands." (Ezra Pound) Click to tweet
12. "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." (Winston Churchill) Click to tweet
13. "Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts." (Mary Harris Jones) Click to tweet
14. "I’m reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it’s like my little friend – it takes my mind off things." (Billie Piper) Click to tweet
15. "Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books." (John Ruskin) Click to tweet
16. "I like reading books because we learn from books, we learn about history, we learn even about future." (Malala Yousafzai) Click to tweet
17. "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) Click to tweet
18. "Mere reading of the scriptures is not enough. A person cannot understand the true significance of the scriptures if he is attached to the world." (Ramakrishna) Click to tweet
19. "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) Click to tweet
20. "A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What i began by reading, i must finish by acting." (Henry David Thoreau) Click to tweet
21. "A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness." (Susan Sontag) Click to tweet
22. "I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it’s a way to get information and find out what’s going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination." (Breckin Meyer) Click to tweet
23. "Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathize, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with." (Daniel Tammet) Click to tweet
24. "Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book." (Julian Barnes) Click to tweet
25. "The keys to life are running and reading. When you’re running, there’s a little person that talks to you and says, ‘oh i’m tired. My lung’s about to pop. I’m so hurt. There’s no way i can possibly continue.’ you want to quit. If you learn how to defeat that person when you’re running. You will how to not quit when things get hard in your life. For reading: there have been gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have: with your parents, with school, with a bully. There’s no new problem that someone hasn’t already had and written about it in a book." (Will Smith) Click to tweet
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