Tag: Reading Quotes

“We read the world wrong, and say that it deceives us.” – Tagore

“The illiterate of the twenty-first century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” – Alvin Toffler

“It is obvious that a mediocre book is always too long, and that a great one usually seems too short.” – Edith Wharton

“Maybe if it’s raining and I’m in the bedroom with the curtains closed but still hearing the rain, then an old book is ok, especially if it smells stale and has that thick, brittle paper.” – Frederich Barthelme, Margaret and Bud

“All you can read, will be of little use, if you do not think and reason upon yourself. One reads to know other people’s thoughts.” – Philip Stanhope

“Eveything in the world exists in order that it may end up in a book.” – Randall Short, New York Times

“If used right, books…do not have to be a substitute for our own creative activity.” – Pete Seeger

“Books bring with them detachment and a critical attitude that is not possible in a society dependent on the spoken word.” – David Riesman, Oral Tradition, Written Word, Screen Image

“Persistent readers of novels will usually confess that what began as a passion tends to end as a habit.”

“There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don’t understand them: sold by people who don’t understand them: bound, criticized, and read by people who don’t understand them: and now even written by people who don’t understand them.” – George Christopher Lictenberg, The Notebook