Reading Quotes
Quotes on reading and the life of the mind. This hand-picked collection brings together 23 of the finest reading quotes ever written — from Victor Hugo, Arthur Schopenhauer, Virginia Woolf and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Reading is a conversation. All books talk.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
We read to know we are not alone.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip — impossible to stop.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
A book holds a house of gold.