61 Quotes About Book-reading

We haven't remained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

By reading books, you lose your old self and you find your new self! To read is to travel from self to another self!

Reading is very important, but there is one thing that is much more important than that: What you read! And guess now, there is also something more important than what you read: What you understand, what you internalize! Because even if you read the most perfect book in the world, if you do not understand it, if you do not internalize it, that book is unread!

A person can learn beneficial information from books, but they can only acquire wisdom from living a fully engaged life.

If everyone could learn how to read books properly and how to use them as effective tools for daily living, the facilities of colleges could easily go out of existence without any loss to society.' -From a speech by the president of Mount Holyoke College, as reported in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, May 13, 1938

When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is that he wants to mentally merge with his favorite character and stroll among all the other creative personalities, feeding a hungry imagination through the vicarious reliving of each and every wild chapter that stirred his emotions, the whole while surrendering to a safe yet daring existence where any crazy, hopeful thing can and does happen. That's all.

Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read.

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.

There is enough knowledge in the books to explain the existing, your knowledge must inspire what is possible.