Quotes About Reading

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you're reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction.

There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon.

Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.

I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.

Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma. Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma

For most people read not with their minds, but with their emotions and prejudices. They read into or read out of a piece of writing what they want to. And when they disagree, it is usually not with what the writer says, but with what they imagine he said... People filter what they read through the fine strainer of their feelings and preconceptions, their prejudices and fears.

No furniture is so charming as books.

No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Live always in the best company when you read.

In this regard, professionals of color may hold an edge. In focus groups we conducted, countless participants confirmed that being a minority is itself a relentless exercise in reading others in order to anticipate and overcome reflexive bias or unconscious resistance.

When I had exhausted our library I made several excursions—to Saint Andrew's, to Oxford, to the German Universities—and read over the shoulders of mortal students. It was sometimes very trying not being able to turn the pages for myself, since I was a quicker reader than they; but invisibility had its drawbacks.

Still reading, Miss St John? You read a lot, don't you? - It saves me from conversation.