Quotes about reading

In fact, every day I’ll read a chapter of some art book. I don’t know why. It’s just a habit.

Sylvester Stallone

I have long discovered that geologists never read each other’s works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.

Charles Darwin

By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.

Jim Rohn

Reading… there have been millions and billions and billions and gazillions of people that have lived before all of us. There’s no new problem you could have – with your parents, with school, with a bully, with anything. There’s no problem you can have that someone hasn’t already solved and wrote about it in a book.

Will Smith

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Malcolm X

People in general do not willingly read if they have anything else to amuse them.

Samuel Johnson

Accent and emphasis are the pith of reading; punctuation is but secondary.

Benjamin Disraeli

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

Charles Darwin

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

Winston Churchill

I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Charles Darwin