A book is a dream that you hold in your hands.
Neil Gaiman
I have lived a thousand lives and I’ve loved a thousand loves. I’ve walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.
George R.R. Martin
Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything.
George Carlin
Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.
Aaron Swartz
In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time – none, zero.
Charlie Munger
Falling in love with reading is a permanent antidote against boredom.
@orangebook_
Reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found.
Kurt Vonnegut
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Stephen King
It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.
Yoshida Kenko
Reading is overrated. Writing is underrated.
Thibaut
Read what makes you question yourself, not what makes you feel good.
@orangebook_
Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.
Thomas à Kempis
Don’t obsess over how many books you read per year. That’s a loser’s game. It can pull you towards short and easy books. Some of the best ones are long and demanding, but provide 100X more value than vanilla bestsellers.
Johnny Uzan
Reading a book you want to read can be immensely valuable, but reading a book you don’t want to read is practically worthless.
James Pierce
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
Oscar Wilde
We’re taught from a young age that books are something you finish, books are sacred. When you go to school and you’re assigned to read a book, you have to finish the book.
Naval Ravikant
Never read a book if you don’t expect to be surprised by something in it, while reading it.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
Bad reading metrics: Books finished per month. Percentage of books finished from books started. Words per $ spent. Words per minute. The only metric that matters: Learning and enjoyment per word.
Johnny Uzan
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
Ryan Holiday
You become knowledgeable by reading. You become strong by doing. You become wise by thinking.
Maxime Lagacé
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
William Somerset Maugham
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
George R.R. Martin
The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading.
James Clear
Reread the greats until absorbed. Number of books read is a vanity metric.
Naval Ravikant
We read books to find out who we are.
Ursula K. Le Guin
To train your body, lift increasingly heavier weights. To train your mind, read increasingly tougher books.
Johnny Uzan
Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre.
Leo Tolstoy
The smarter you get, the slower you read.
Naval Ravikant
Your mind automatically generates thoughts related to the information you consume. Be conscious of your information diet.
Michael
Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you’ve lost the source of. It works, but you don’t know why.
Paul Graham
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. Seuss
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Frederick Douglass
Most people don’t read. Or if they do, they’re just reading mind candy.
Naval Ravikant
The right book for the right person is not enough. It needs to be the right book, for the right person at the right time.
Johnny Uzan
Netflix is overrated. Reading books is underrated.
Thibaut
A donkey carrying a pile of holy books is still a donkey.
Zen proverb
Reading is sowing. Rereading is the harvest.
Johnny Uzan
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
Criss Jami
The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
Hector