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Reading14 quotes
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin · 1790A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. — Tyrion Lannister · 2011I discovered me in the library. — Ray Bradbury · 2010Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. — John Ruskin · 1864There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — Jane Austen · 1813A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson · 1763All 14 quotes →Books9 quotes
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin · 1790A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. — Tyrion Lannister · 2011I discovered me in the library. — Ray Bradbury · 2010There is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — Jane Austen · 1813A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson · 1763Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon · 1625All 9 quotes →Self-discovery2 quotes
I discovered me in the library. — Ray Bradbury · 2010Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth. — Marcel Proust · 1922Bibliophilia1 quote
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin · 1790Confirmation bias1 quote
Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. — John Ruskin · 1864Culture1 quote
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury · 1993Leisure1 quote
I have done my plowing:
I have sown my seed.
Again I have time to sit and read my books. — Tao Yuanming · 427Libraries1 quote
I discovered me in the library. — Ray Bradbury · 2010Media criticism1 quote
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. — Aleister Crowley · 1929Newspapers1 quote
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. — Aleister Crowley · 1929Perception1 quote
Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe. — Lex Luthor · 1978Power of literature1 quote
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth. — Marcel Proust · 1922Tsundoku1 quote
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. — Benjamin Franklin · 1790Writing1 quote
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. — Francis Bacon · 1625