Reading Quotes

Reading Clausewitz makes you take your own thoughts a little less seriously.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

I know people who read without hearing the sentence sounds and they were the fastest readers. Eye readers we call them. They get the meaning by glances. But they are bad readers because they miss the best part of what a good writer puts into his work.

The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.

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.

A multitude of books distracts the mind.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

I spend a lot of time reading.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits.

The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.