READING QUOTES IV

quotations about reading

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Some people read too much: the bibliobuli ... who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through the most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

H. L. MENCKEN
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"Minority Report", Notebooks


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The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

MALCOLM X

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, Discourse a clear Man.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Poor Richard's Almanac

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Learn to read slow; all other graces
Will follow in their proper places.

WILLIAM WALKER

Art of Reading


Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

VOLTAIRE

A Philosophical Dictionary

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But reading is not idleness ... it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

STEPHEN SPENDER

journal entry, January 4, 1980


You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

JAMES BALDWIN

Life Magazine, May 24, 1963

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Love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life which come to every one, for hours of delight.

MONTESQUIEU

attributed, Day's Collacon

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To read merely for reading's sake is almost as unprofitable as not reading at all. Setting out, in the first place with a clear idea of what we wish to learn, which is eminently important, we must afterwards, if we would realize what we have read, reperuse it in thought. This only makes it truly our own.

LEO HARTLEY GRINDON

Life: Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena


Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

SIR ARTHUR HELPS

Friends in Council

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In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

The Citizen of the World

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As addictions go, reading is among the cleanest, easiest to feed, happiest.

JOSEPH EPSTEIN

attributed, The Miracle of Language

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Do not Books still accomplish miracles, as Runes were fabled to do? They persuade men. Not the wretchedest circulating library novel, which foolish girls thumb and con in remote villages, but will help to regulate the actual practical weddings and households of those foolish girls.

THOMAS CARLYLE

On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures


A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

SAMUEL JOHNSON

Boswell's Life of Johnson

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If we encountered a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Letters and Social Aims

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The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.

C. S. LEWIS

"On Stories", Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

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Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

BEN CARSON

Think Big


Sound and healthy reading will develop and enkindle the soul, enlighten the mind, and vivify and direct the imagination.

LOUISE SWANTON BELLOC

attributed, Day's Collacon


Much reading, like a too great repletion, stops up, through a course of diverse sometimes contrary opinions, the access of a nearer, newer, and quicker invention of your own.

LAUGHTON OSBORN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

HARPER LEE

To Kill a Mockingbird

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