Reading Quotes

Before reading this quotes, I’m guessing you’ve already read my post titled ‘reading matters’. And I equally hope you’ve resolved to begin or re-begin to read.

There is so much information around us. We have to as much as we can assimilate as much knowledge we can afford too.

Knowledge they say is power and it is so true. Many of the great world leaders (past and present) were great readers. ‘Thomas Jefferson’, ‘Bill Clinton’,

‘Benjamin Franklin’ are but a few great leaders that give heed to reading. Enjoy these amazing reading quotes.

“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.” Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Sir Richard Steele

“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.” Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” John Locke (1632 - 1704

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

“If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.” Francois Fenelon

“Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.” Rufus Choate

I cannot live without books. Thomas Jefferson

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. James McCosh
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. Chinese Proverb

Anyone who has a library and a garden wants for nothing. Cicero

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. Mortimer J. Adler

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter. - Paxton Hood

Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. Dwight D. Eisenhower

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever. Martin Tupper

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends: they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. - Charles W. Eliot

A library is a hospital for the mind. Anonymous

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

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. S. I. Hayakawa

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. Dr. Seuss

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity. Thomas Carlyle

When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. Marie de Sevigne

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual. Socrates

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. Rita Mae Brown

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge. John Naisbitt

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. Theodore Parker

None is poor save him that lacks knowledge. The Talmud

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin

Learning is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. Chinese Proverb

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens. - President Clinton

You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read. Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance. Confucious

Some people will lie, cheat, steal and back-stab to get ahead... and to think, all they have to do is READ. Fortune

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader. Margaret Fuller

A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance. Lyndon Baines Johnson

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Christopher Morley

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

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. May Ellen Chase

Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere. Hazel Rochman

Reading gives us information. Information gives us ideas and ideas rules the world so if you want to rule the world, all you need do is read.- Emmanuel(Yours truly)