On Reading

“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
^{- Confucius}
 
"You cannot remember what you did not read."

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
^{- A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel)}


“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
^{- Abraham Lincoln}

“To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.”
^{- Andre Gide}

“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
^{- Angela Carter}

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of the past centuries.”
^{- Descartes}

 “The more you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
^{- Dr. Seuss, "I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!"}

“A book is the most effective weapon against intolerance and ignorance.”
^{- Lyndon Baines Johnson}

“If you can read this, thank a teacher.”
^{- Anonymous teacher}


from http://www.readfaster.com/readingquotes.asp