The Best Quotes About Reading
I've collected thousands of quotes over the past 10+ years.
Here are the best ones I've found so far about reading...
“What you will become in five years will be determined by what you read and who you associate with.” -Charles 'Tremendous' Jones
“The genuine love for reading itself, when cultivated, is a superpower. We live in the age of Alexandria, when every book and every piece of knowledge ever written down is a fingertip away. The means of learning are abundant--it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.” -Naval Ravikant
“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.” -Descartes
"My alma mater was books, a good library...I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity." -Malcolm X
"Think before you speak. Read before you think." -Fran Lebowitz
"A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting." -Walter Mosley (The Long Fall)
“When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.” -Erasmus
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“I cannot live without books.” -Thomas Jefferson
"Whatever problem you’re struggling with is probably addressed in some book somewhere written by someone a lot smarter than you." -Ryan Holiday
“My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” -Abraham Lincoln
“If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.” -Roald Dahl
"When you read and learn from others, you're loading the files into your mind so that you can access them when you need them." -Steven Shallenberger
"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind." -Epictetus
"Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book." -Thomas à Kempis
"I could not tell you specific passages or quotes from books. At some deep level, you absorb them, and they become threads in the tapestry of your psyche." -Naval Ravikant
"I myself feel very uneasy going into a house in which there are no bookshelves." -Salman Rushdie
"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything." -Joseph Brodsky
"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it. Once weaned from the ephemeral craving for TV, most people will find they enjoy the time they spend reading. I'd like to suggest that turning off that endlessly quacking box is apt to improve the quality of your life as well as the quality of your writing." -Stephen King
"Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs." -Jim Rohn
"The difference between the people you admire and everyone else [is that the former are] the people who read." -Bryan Callen, to David Blaine
"The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones." -John Wooden
"You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind." -Seneca
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” -Stephen King
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time.” -Charlie Munger
“You could try to pound your head against the wall and think of original ideas or you can cheat by reading them in books.” -Patrick Collison
