Reading Quotes

Reading Quote of the day

Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?"

You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.

No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Studying goes deeper than mere reading. There are surface nuggets to be gathered but the best of the gold is underneath, and it takes time and labor to secure it.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

The doors of churches, hotels, concert halls and reading rooms are alike closed against the Negro as a man, but every place is open to him as a servant.

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

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.