Quotes about reading

Be able to recognize when you’re reading or hearing material biased to your own side.

Marilyn vos Savant

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We don’t read other people’s opinions. We want to get the facts, and then think.

Warren Buffett

As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

Abraham Lincoln

Fools admire everything in an author of reputation. For my part, I read only to please myself. I like only that which serves my purpose.

Voltaire

A socialist is someone who has read Lenin and Marx. An anti-socialist is someone who understands Lenin and Marx.

Ronald Reagan

I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!

Lewis Carroll

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Billy Graham

My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

Steve Jobs