Reading Quotes

Reading, after a certain age,

diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

Any man who reads too much

and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

A capacity, and taste,

for reading gives access to whatever

has already been discovered by others.

One must be an inventor to read well.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid.

One day I fell asleep in the library.

When I woke up,

a blind man was reading my face.

Reading about nature is fine,

but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully,

he can learn more than what is in books,

for they speak with the voice of God.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.

Just get people to stop reading them.

Be careful about reading health books.

You may die of a misprint.

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.

If I like a thing,

it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Education begins the gentleman,

but reading, good company,

and reflection must finish him.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself

a refuge from almost all miseries of life.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon,

and every line of his writing,

deserves reading,

as it is the sense of France.