Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Reading Quotes
CreativityCritical ThinkingIntellectual LazinessReading Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
LearningPerspectiveReadingThought Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
ContentmentFriendshipIdeal LifeReading Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
CreativityCritiqueHumanityLiteratureReading I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.
BeliefDelusionReadingReality Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
AtheismCritical ThinkingReading A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
ExperienceLiteratureReadingUnderstandingWriting Read with care, George Orwell's diaries, from the years 1931 to 1949, can greatly enrich our understanding of how Orwell transmuted the raw material of everyday experience into some of his best-known novels and polemics.
BooksKnowledgeReadingTime Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
DreamReading I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
EffortEngagementReadingWriting The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it's a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
EmpowermentKnowledgeReadingSelf-Improvement Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
AmbitionDiscoveryKnowledgePerseveranceReading I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems And not only so It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
HumorLaughterReading From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
DisciplineIntellectual GrowthLiteratureReadingTelevision I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
EducationGrowthIgnoranceKnowledgeReading The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
BibleNightmaresReading The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
ChildhoodFairy TalesImaginationReadingWonder If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
Child DevelopmentEducationLearningLiteracyReading The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.
IndividualityPreferencesReading For people who like that kind of a book that is the kind of book they will like.
CommunicationKnowledgeListeningPerceptionReading The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
DisciplineEarly RisingMorning RoutineReading I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.
