Quality Reading Quotes

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

Life is too short for reading inferior books.

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best.

When you read the Bible, read for quality not quantity.

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;--book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned.

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Never read any but what you like.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?