reading quotes

• There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. (Bertrand Russell) [reading]
• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. (John Locke) [reading/mind/knowledge/thinking]
• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. (Joseph Addison) [life/reading]
• Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. (Antonin Artaud) [poetry/reading/poets]
• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. (Francis Bacon) [reading]
• He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. (Arthur James Balfour) [art/reading/more/art]
• If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all. (Thomas Carlyle) [time/willpower/reading]
• The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called significant literature will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles. (Raymond Chandler) [reading/literature/willpower]
• Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield) [reading/books/more/knowledge]
• The mere brute pleasure of reading --the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [pleasure/reading/pleasure]
• The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries. (Rene Descartes) [reading/books/conversation/men]
• There is creative reading as well as creative writing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [reading]
• There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [reading/mind]
• Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. (Benjamin Franklin) [reading/meditation]
• If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. (Benjamin Franklin) [reading]
• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. (Benjamin Franklin) [reading]
• Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. (Ben Hecht) [reading/time]
• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. (Ernest Hemingway) [books/reading/willpower/bad]
• If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work. (Ernest Hemingway) [reading/silense & noise/willpower/sound]
• My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. (Thomas Jefferson) [reading/bad/government/government]
• He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. (Charles Lamb) [reading]
• Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. (John Locke) [reading/mind/knowledge/thinking]
• Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing. (John Locke) [understanding/men/reading]
• A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. (James Lowell) [reading]
• The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. (Katherine Mansfield) [pleasure/reading/books]
• The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. (H. L. Mencken) [knowledge/reading/books/knowledge]
• The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man -- that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense -- has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading, and it is highly improbable that the thing has ever been done by a virtuous woman. (H. L. Mencken) [truth/reading/thing]
• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content. (Henry Miller) [reading/content]
• Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors. (Pablo Picasso) [reading/pleasure]
• Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) [reading/solitude/idleness/life]
• A book worth reading is worth buying. (John Ruskin) [reading]

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