"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."
Francis Bacon
Reading Quotes
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Reading Quotes
Read 66 famous reading quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"Think before you speak. Read before you think."
Fran Lebowitz
“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”
Mark Twain
“Man is what he reads.”
Joseph Brodsky
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
Frederick Douglass
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
Dr. Seuss
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.”
Charles W. Eliot
“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
Margaret Fuller
“The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.”
Mary McLeod Bethune
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
Francis Bacon
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
John Locke
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
Cicero
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.”
Albert Einstein
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
Joseph Addison