Quotes about reading

You’ve probably read in People that I’m a nice guy – but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson’s, I wanted to kill him.

Michael J. Fox

Realisation is real religion, all the rest is only preparation – hearing lectures, or reading books, or reasoning is merely preparing the ground; it is not religion.

Swami Vivekananda

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

Abraham Lincoln

The minute you read something that you can’t understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

Will Rogers

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

Abraham Lincoln

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.

Nelson Mandela

Not every child learns the same way. I could not learn through my eyes. Reading was impossible. Math, to compute it in my mind, was impossible. I learned everything through listening.

Henry Winkler

Once she knows how to read there’s only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Virginia Woolf

I don’t look at the tabloids. I don’t read the tabloids.

Pamela Anderson