Reading Book Quotes

Reading Book Quote of the day

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method.

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

I don't read such small stuff as letters, I read men and nations. I can see through a millstone, though I can't see through a spelling-book. What a narrow idea a reading qualification is for a voter!

The man who reads only for improvement is beyond the hope of much improvement before he begins.

A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.

We read to know that we are not alone.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

To read too many books is harmful.

It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

I spend so much time on the Internet...I feel like I'm a million pages into the worst book ever, and I'm never going to stop reading.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

Only one book is worth reading: the heart.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.