Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old reading quotes, reading sayings, and reading proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.A C Grayling
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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
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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.Abraham Lincoln
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The more you read, the more you learn, the more you learn, the smarter you are.Dr T.P.Chia
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The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.Harper Lee
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.George R.R. Martin
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Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.Frederick Douglass
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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go.Dr. Seuss
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The man who does not read good books is no better than the man who can't.Mark Twain
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Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.Margaret Fuller
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Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.Mason Cooley
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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.Richard Steele
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.Oscar Wilde
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Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.Paul Auster
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It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.C.S. Lewis
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Keep reading books, but remember that a book's only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.Maxim Gorky
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A fondness for reading changes the inevitable dull hours of our life into exquisite hours of delight.Charles de Montesquieu
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him, and travel in his company.Andre Gride
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Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.Brad Henry
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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.Edmund Burke
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Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.Jean Rhys
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Children are made readers on the laps of their parents.Emilie Buchwald
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Those who have trouble reading are those who have trouble moving ahead in the appreciation of all that life has to offer.Byron Pulsifer
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Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.Robin Sharma
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom
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The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.Rene Descartes
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.Benjamin Disraeli
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The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.Anthony Trollope
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What is reading but silent conversation?Walter Savage Landor