Powerful Quotes about Books and Reading Habit

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
– Francis Bacon

A home without books is a body without soul.
– Marcus Tullius

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
– Victor Hugo

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
– Edmund Burke

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
– E.M. Forster

If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know its poetry.
– Emily Dickinson

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again; there is no use in reading it at all.
– Oscar Wilde

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
– Francis Bacon

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
– Aldous Huxley

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and tomorrow.
– Martin Tupper

Don’t just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflected person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.
– Epictetus

Read, not to contradict and confute; not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
– Francis Bacon

The best books elevate us into a region of disinterested thought, where personal objects fade into insignificance, and the troubles and anxieties of the world are almost forgotten.
– LordAvebury

Reading good books can be of help in the early mental stage - they prepare the mind, put it in the right atmosphere, can even, if one is very sensitive, bring some glimpses of realization on the mental plane. Afterwards the utility diminishes - you have to find every knowledge and experience in yourself.
– Sri Aurobindo

Reading contributes significantly to the success and development of an individual and it is recommended for people of all demographics. Many recent surveys done across the world have found that reading habits have diminished, especially in managers who should be reading extensively.
– Nitya Sai Souniya

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
–Dr. Seuss

Study as if you were to live for ever, live as if you were to die tomorrow.
– Mahatma Gandhi

Being open to, and actively seeking new knowledge is a lesson that must be quickly learned if success and happiness are your goal.
– Greg Vance

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors and then most patient of teachers.
– Charles W. Eliot

To get the greatest amount not merely of benefit but even of enjoyment from books, we must read for improvement, rather than for amusement.
– LordAvebury

A man should be known by the books he reads and collects. There is a common trait among book lovers. They are always eager and even anxious to get more and more books, to the extent of getting irritated if they do not get the desired ones and angry if some from the collection are lost or misplaced.
_Govind Talwalka