Charlie Munger Quotes

I hate reading. But I'm trying to force myself because studies have shown that it's literally the only way to matter-of-factly boost your IQ.

In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

I read all the time, and I'm often struck by something I'm reading.

What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.

Read much, but not many books.

We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.

Read, read, read, read and then read some more.

I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your life. I want to approach it from the idea that you have to read or you're going to suffer. There's a difference to be made - and you can make it if you read with your child.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

If we were meant to read for enjoyment, would God have created television? Read as it was intended - for exercise. The more you read, the more you expand your - what's the word I'm looking for? - your stockpile of words. You must have a stockpile of words that you can pass along to your children for their stockpile.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

I don't know what else teaches you as much as writing. Perhaps reading. So if I don't have one or the other in the course of the day, I feel old.

I just love to read, learn, and think through complex things.

Kids who read are bright.

I'm just encouraging students to read. It's something you can do daily. It's something you can do whether you're sitting at home reading a newspaper or ordering something online. It's endless.

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter

The first class of readers may be compared to an hour-glass, their reading being as the sand; it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second class resembles a sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third class is like a jelly-bag, which allows all that is pure to pass away, and retains only the refuse and dregs. The fourth class may be compared to the slave of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, preserves only the pure gems.

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess.

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

We all know we should eat right and we should exercise, but reading is treated as if it's this wonderful adjunct.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

I feel like I've been out of high school forever. So I just read to keep my mind going.