| Author |
Quotes |
| Bible | And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. |
| Bible | That he that readeth may run over it. |
| Book of Common Prayer | Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. |
| Edward Gibbon | My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India. |
| Isaac D Israeli | The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. |
| Johannes Kepler | It may be well to wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. |
| Francis Bacon | Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. |
| Joseph Addison | Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated, by the other, virtue is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | What they're accustomed to is no great matter, But then, alas! they've read an awful deal. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Our high respect for a well-read man is praise enough for literature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | If we encountered a man or rare intellect, we should ask him what books he read. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, |
| Samuel Johnson | A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. |
| Samuel Johnson | What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed. |
| Thomas Carlyle | If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. |
| Thomas Carlyle | We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it. |
| William Cowper | The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile. |
| William Cowper | But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read. |
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