Albert Einstein Quotes About Reading

• The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Reading

• If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Children

• Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.

  Albert Einstein

  Atheist, Attitude, Book

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.338, Princeton University Press

• There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Reading, Writing

• I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

  Albert Einstein

  Reading, Writing, Looks

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.428, Princeton University Press

• Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Reading, Creativity

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.175, Princeton University Press

• My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Reading, Thinking

• When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. (Reading this makes me wonder how much sooner man could have walked on the moon... had we listened to a child's fantasies. It is truly a pity that so many lose their gift of imagination to the steady hum of the status quo.)

  Albert Einstein

  Children, Reading, Moon

• The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Reading, Writing

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