Reading Quotes

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson

History, Government, Bad

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Age, Mind, Thinking

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

Health, May, Die

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers

Men, Learn, Few

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Writing, Write, Worth

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Maya Angelou

Good, Deep, Book

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.
C. S. Lewis

Sleep, Wife, Humility

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

Health, Learning, Rather

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Cannot, Young, Atheist

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Oscar Wilde

Book, Enjoy, Cannot

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.
Zig Ziglar

Positive, Powerful, Economy

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Book, Down

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Benjamin Franklin

Writing, Dead, Write

How well he's read, to reason against reading!
William Shakespeare

Reason, Against, Read

I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
Gillian Anderson

Change, Good, Hope

One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Creative, Read

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Sense, Line

There is creative reading as well as creative writing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writing, Creative

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett

Peace, Nature, Time

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

Books, Worse, Burning

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

Two, Ways, Smarter

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury

Stop, Culture, Books

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton

Music, Nature, God

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it.
Chaim Potok

Family, Home, Reality

A reading man and woman is a ready man and woman, but a writing man and woman is exact.
Marcus Garvey

Woman, Writing, Ready

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
Steven Wright

Everything, Thought, Dictionary

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx

Laughter, Book, Down

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
Rodney Dangerfield

Face, Library, Kid

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
Barack Obama

Good, Made, Decisions

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