Quotes on Reading
The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
James Russell Lowell
A man learns by two things. One is reading. The other is association with smarter people.
Will Rogers
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
Michel de Montaigne
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors are finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.
Jeff Olson
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Colton
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David Thoreau
A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men.
Henry Ford
Don't borrow or lend books. Buy them as often as possible and build a library you have personalized with markings for future reference.
Zig Ziglar
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 is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
Joseph Addison
The things I want to know are in books. My best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Abraham Lincoln
Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something.
Jim Rohn
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what is read ours.
John Locke
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
Mason Cooley
Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.
Jim Rohn
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
Tom Peters
Your book bill ought to be your biggest extravagance.
Clive Staples Lewis
In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time - none, zero.
Charlie Munger
Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
Charlie Munger
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