Reading Quotes - Page 13

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

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Inspirational, Education, African American

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• The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Writing, Acceptance

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• Choose an author as you choose a friend.

  Christopher Wren

  Book, You Choose

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• As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Intellectual, May

  Isaac Watts, Joseph Emerson (1855). “The Improvement of the Mind”, p.66

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• By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's pre-existence.

  Jeremy Collier

  Running, Plato, Men

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• So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

  Dan B. Allender

  Life, God, Stories

  Dan B. Allender (2009). “To Be Told: Know Your Story, Shape Your Future”, p.5, WaterBrook

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• Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

  Joseph Addison

  Book, Exercise, Mind

  Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1785). “The Tatler: Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.371

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

  Gary Paulsen

  Book, Novelists, Literature

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• A house without books is like a room without windows.

  Horace Mann

  Life, Happiness, Attitude

  "The Duty of Owning Books". Book by Horace Mann, 1859.

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• People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Funny, Life, Witty

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Myself"

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• Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, World, Escapism

  Alberto Manguel (2014). “A History of Reading”, p.27, Penguin

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• A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

  Horace Mann

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.225

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Education, Writing, Light

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• Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

  Thomas Jefferson (1984). “Jefferson: Writings”, p.1245, Library of America

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• 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, Creativity, Men

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

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• Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

  Ruth Rendell

  Book, Life Is, Literacy

  Ruth Rendell (2000). “A Judgement in Stone”, Vintage

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• I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

  Charles Lamb

  Book, Thinking

  Charles Lamb (1869). “The Essays of Elia and Eliana”, p.167

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• Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Literacy, Should

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• Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

  Francis Bacon

  Teacher, Military, Writing

  Essays "Of Studies" (1625)

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• I cannot live without books.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Book, Beer, Literacy

  Letter to John Adams, 10 June 1815

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• There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Class, Numbers

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.34

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• I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose
  between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

  George Gissing

  Book, Smell, Noses

  George Gissing (2015). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.22, George Gissing

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Literacy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Book, Library, Cards

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• What is twice read is commonly better remembered that what is transcribed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Remembered

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