Quotes about reading

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Marcus Aurelius

It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

Malcolm Gladwell

I’m probably the only bestselling author you know who’s written more books than she’s read.

Suze Orman

If it is wisdom you’re after, you’re going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

Charlie Munger

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening and to be returned early in the morning, lest it should be missed or wanted.

Benjamin Franklin

I do a lot of reading, a lot of studying. I ask questions, I’ll go out, travel these countries, I’ll watch how their people live, and I learn.

Muhammad Ali

If you get into the mental habit of relating what you’re reading to the basic structure of the underlying ideas being demonstrated, you gradually accumulate some wisdom.

Charlie Munger

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

Benjamin Franklin