30 Awesome Quotes about the Value of Reading and Books

Reading books has multiple benefits, including reducing stress, helping you sleep, keeping your brain healthy, sharpening your mind, and gaining new knowledge.

“A good book is an event in my life.” — Stendhal

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

“I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” J.K. Rowling

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” — Cicero

“She reads books as one would breath air, to fill up and live.” — Annie Dillard

“A book is a gift you can open again and again.” — Garrison Keillor

“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.” — J.K. Rowling

“I cannot live without books.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Drink deeply from good books.” — John Wooden

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.” — Napoléon Bonaparte

“One glance at a book and you have the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” — Carl Sagan

“We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.” — Jules Verne

“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” — Margaret Fuller

“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.” — Oscar Wilde

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” — W. Somerset Maugham

“Read 500 pages every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest.” — Warren Buffet

“Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way then most media today.” — Mark Zuckerberg

“Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible.” — Barack Obama

“Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” — Harry Truman

“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.” — Mason Cooley

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” — Fredrick Douglas

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.” — George R.R. martin

“How can any man judge unless his mind has been opened and enlarged?” — John Adams

“Reading is important. If you know how to read, then the world opens up to you” — Barack Obama

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.” — Robert Lewis Stevenson

“I guess there are never enough books.” — John Steinbeck

“Reading is still the main way that I both learn new things and test my understanding.” — Bill Gates

“My best friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.” — Abraham Lincoln

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” – Walt Disney

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