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Quotes and sayings about tag  reading

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inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

François Mauriac

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.

Francis Bacon

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Francis Bacon

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

John Green

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

Fran Lebowitz

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.

George R.R. Martin

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

John Locke

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

Jules Verne

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

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

Malcolm X

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Orhan Pamuk

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Oscar Wilde

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Sylvia Plath

inspirational quotes - Image for quote : A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.

William Styron

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Adolf Hitler

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

Al Pacino

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

Alberto Manguel

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Aldous Huxley

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.

Helen Exley

…only then did I wake out of the book.

John McGahern

Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.

Kellie Elmore

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

Anne Fadiman

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

Annie Dillard

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There's a difference between preferring books to parties and preferring sixteen cats to seeing the light of day.

Lauren Morrill

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

Louis L'Amour

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

Patricia A. McKillip

Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?

Christopher Paolini

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Criss Jami

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