Quotes About Wisdom

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

I've always been a big reader.

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

For people who are readers, reading is important to them.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.

Don't ask who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

I've loved reading all my life.

Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.

I enjoy reading books.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

I'm always reading books.

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

I don't claim to have all the answers; after all, I'm just a comedian who reads a lot.

I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.

If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.