Abraham Lincoln Quotes About Reading

• The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

• If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Law

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.485, Library of America

• As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Wish

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.401, Wildside Press LLC

• Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading

• A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

• A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Keys, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.327, Library of America

• A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Book, Reading

• Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

  Abraham Lincoln

  Bible, Faith, Book

• if you want your name to be remembered after your death either do something worth writing or write some thing worth reading

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Writing, Names

• Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.121, Wildside Press LLC

• I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Tire, Paine

  "A Literary History of the American People‎" by Charles Angoff, (p. 270), 1931.

• Better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak out and confirm that you didn't do the assigned readings before the strategic planning retreat.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Reading, Speaks Out, Fool

• If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, People

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.441, Modern Library

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