Quotes about reading

„It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.“

—  Christian Morgenstern German author 1871 - 1914

„Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.“

—  Kurt Cobain, book Journals

Source: Journals

„Some people like to read their bibles in the Hebrew; some like to read it in the Greek; I like to read it in the Holy Spirit“

—  Smith Wigglesworth British evangelist 1859 - 1947

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„Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.“

—  Rudolf Steiner Austrian esotericist 1861 - 1925

Source: Rhythms of Learning

„Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.“

—  Martin Heidegger German philosopher 1889 - 1976

„I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him will read my story and judge whether my people have been rightly treated.“

—  Geronimo leader of the Bedonkohe Apache 1829 - 1909

„… don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience…“

—  Louise Erdrich writer from the United States 1954

„I love reading books. In fact I have so many books at home that my mom has asked me not to purchase anymore. I feel books give a lot of knowledge and allow us to think from different perspectives. My all time favourite books are What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey and The Power of your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy. I like to read from fiction to philosophical all of them. The last book I finished reading was Adultery by Paulo Coelho.“

—  Sukirti Kandpal Indian actress 1987

Sukirti Kandpal on #WorldBookDay http://www.tellychakkar.com/tv/features/worldbookday-tv-celebs-and-their-love-reading-150423/

„There is a certain confidence that a newsreader exudes while reading the stories in a staccato manner. Although my Hindi is good, I realised that the one they speak is chaste. I tried reading from the teleprompter at the set, but I felt that I need to polish my reading skills to make it sound as close to that of a newsreader's. Since then, I've been reading a lot of Hindi papers and watching news channels.“

—  Sukirti Kandpal Indian actress 1987

Sukirti Kandpal on playing a journalist in Dilli Wali Thakur Gurls https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/Why-Sukirti-Kandpal-is-chasing-the-media/articleshow/46665042.cms/

„I was excited by the story of Yayati. This exchange of ages between the father and the son, which seemed to be terribly powerful and terribly modern. At the same time I was reading a lot of Sartre and the Existentialist. This consistent harping on responsibility which the Existentialist indulge in suddenly seemed to link up with the story of Yayati.“

—  Girish Raghunath Karnad Indian playwright 1938 - 2019

This story of Yayati from the Mahabhrata generated interst in him to become a playwright and he explains this here.[Sahu, Nandini title=The Post-colonial Space: Writing the Self and the Nation, http://books.google.com/books?id=xs_tj0tDnnwC&pg=PA59, 2007, Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 978-81-269-0777-9, 120]

„Listening to a cultivated person of today who jokes and almost boasts of his scientific ignorance is as sad as listening to a scientist who boasts of not having read any poem.“

—  Carlo Rovelli Italian physicist 1956

Il Sole 24 Ore cultural supplement, October 17, 2010.

„From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it.“

—  Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986

Source: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Context: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.

„There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.“

—  Joseph Brodsky Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1940 - 1996

Misattributed

„Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.“

—  George Bernard Shaw Irish playwright 1856 - 1950

„If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.“

—  Francois Mauriac French author 1885 - 1970

„If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.“

—  Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

No known source in Twain's works.
The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ.
Disputed

„"Classic." A book which people praise and don't read.“

—  Mark Twain, book Following the Equator

Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Ch. XXV
Following the Equator (1897)

„I sincerely hope, trust, and pray that this part of my journey will not seem as dull to you as it did to me at the time, or as it does to me now while I write of it. But now I come to think of it, it cannot seem as dull, for I had to walk that wretched thirty miles or so all the day long, whereas you have not even to read it; for I am not going to say anything more about it, but lead you straight to the end.Oh, blessed quality of books, that makes them a refuge from living! For in a book everything can be made to fit in, all tedium can be skipped over, and the intense moments can be made timeless and eternal.“

—  Hilaire Belloc writer 1870 - 1953

Source: The Path to Rome (1902), p. 201

„When I read about the dangers of drinking, I gave up reading“

—  Henny Youngman American comedian 1906 - 1998

Variant: When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.