Reading Quotes

"Don’t just teach your kids to read, teach them to question what they read. " "Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book" "Travel? Absurdly easy: with one book out of Toulouse I'm in Florence before five o' the clock." "For me, the Library is a temple." "Some books should be tasted, others devoured" "It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between." "I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once." "Libraries raised me. I don’t believe." "Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him." "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." "He who reads much and walks much, sees much and knows much" "Buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them" "You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read." "Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life"