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Quotes About Reading

Having a nice library doesn't make you smart. Don't buy books and stack them up in your library
~ read them.
The love for literature is the key to knowledge.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading leads to knowledge and wise ways of living.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The more you read, the better you are informed.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I hunger for books, I search for knowledge.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Reading is the life-saving water for our minds. Drink pure words as much as you need and remain alive!
~ Munia Khan
Reading brings power to the mind and power brings freedom to the mind. Though you ought to read, read what is noble and worthy of not just your time, but your lifetime!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I have met many sacred souls in reading.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
One who never reads only goes where his feet can take him, but one who does, travels around the world.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
If we fail to read, we miss the treasure of wisdom.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often.
~ Jim George
It feels good read but greater to write.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
I love books. I love that moment when you can open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.
~ Elizabeth Scott
If you read the novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really
~ Philip Roth
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin.
~ James Gleick
What a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there.
~ Kevin Brockmeier
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
~ Nicolas Cage
More people will watch 'Spotlight' than will ever read the 'Globe' series that inspired it.
~ Mitchell Zuckoff
Through the years, through my own conversations, through my own weird obsessions, I think I have developed some very deep politics of political knowledge - and I think I have huge blind spots, too - which I have tried to build not necessarily through traditional interviews so much as it is conversations and a lot of research and reading.
~ Steve Kornacki
Whenever I am with a group of kids, I always ask them, 'How many of you know about the summer reading program at your library and how many of you know it's free?' Spreading that sort of message comes very naturally to me.
~ Kate DiCamillo
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.
~ Charles Edward Montague