Quotes about reading

I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

Mark Twain

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you’ll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that’s fine because that’s a learning experience too.

J. K. Rowling

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

Will Rogers

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.

Christopher Columbus

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

Vincent Van Gogh

Reading allows us to learn, see, do things that we could never have done with our own knowledge.

Eric Thomas

Reading allows you to go into a space that nothing else can take you to.

Eric Thomas

So philosophy purifies the will. But philosophy is to be understood as experience and thought, not as mere reading or passive study.

Will Durant

Read less, study less, but think more.

Leo Tolstoy

I don’t really collect books. I tend to lose interest in them the minute I’ve read them, so most of the books I’ve read are left in airplanes and hotel rooms.

Malcolm Gladwell