Quotes About Reading

Leave us alone without books and we shall be lost and in confusion at once.

We know that children whose parents read them bedtime stories do better than those whose parents do not.

Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other worlds.

To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events. The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is inessential.

Ich las damals unendlich viel und zwar gründlich. In wenigen Jahren schuf ich mir damit die Grundlagen eines Wissens, von denen ich auch heute noch zehre.

Generally, readers of the Press can be classified into three groups: First, those who believe everything they read; Second, those who no longer believe anything; Third, those who critically examine what they read and form their judgments accordingly.

From early youth I endeavored to read books in the right way and I was fortunate in having a good memory and intelligence to assist me.

To truly "learn" history means to open your eyes and discover the forces that cause historical events to happen. The art of reading and of learning means remembering the important parts and forgetting the unimportant.

Experience coupled with reading is strong medicine for the mind.

I know people who read endlessly, book after book, from cover to cover, and yet I would not call them 'well-read.' Of course they 'know' an immense amount; but their brain seems incapable of sifting and organizing the information they have acquired. They don't have the ability to distinguish between what is useful and what is useless... Reading is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

En términos generales, tres son los grupos en que se podría dividir el público lector de periódicos: 1°. Los crédulos, que admiten todo lo que leen. 2°. Aquellos que ya no creen nada. 3°. Los espíritus críticos, que analizan lo leído y saben juzgar.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

I even love the smell of books.

Desperate to become enriched by books, I sometimes barely remembered what I'd read, yet the unconscious effect of so many sentences felt cumulative, like recurring dreams.

Books will change your lie, Rennie... you have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life' Margo said... 'you can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself'...

To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading and I want to know which words they are. I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn between bitterness and hope turning back once again to the task you cannot refuse. I know you are reading this poem because there is nothing else left to read there where you have landed, stripped as you are.

sleep comes hard. I'd rather lie awake and read.

I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.

My passion for books has changed my life.

My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.

I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.

I read a lot, very passionately, from the time I was very young, but it was a constant battle; my mother would more or less let me be, but with my father, I was always searching for a place where he wouldn't find me. Whenever he saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person.