“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
“I read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest.”
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time — none, zero.”
“Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.”
“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.”
“The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.”
“A book is a gift you can open again and again.”
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”