Reading Quotes - Page 15

• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Places To Go, Green Eggs And Ham

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• I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Learning, Meals

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• Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Kind, Instruments

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• One can transform a place by reading in it.

  Alberto Manguel

  "A History of Reading". Book by Alberto Manguel, 1996.

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• To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

  A.C. Grayling

  Views, Ideas, Giving

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• Reading brings us unknown friends

  Honore de Balzac

  Book

  Honore de Balzac (2014). “The Elixir of Life”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stories, Lasts, Bedtime

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• A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

  Jeremy Collier

  Book, Men, Stronger

  Jeremy Collier (1732). “Essays upon several moral subjects”

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• I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Nature, Book, Kids

  "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.

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• We read to know that we are not alone.

  William Nicholson

  Book, Knows, Not Alone

  "Shadowlands". December 25, 1993.

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• How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Book, New Beginnings

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Reading'.

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• Be awesome! Be a book nut!

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Clothes

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• The wise man reads both books and life itself.

  Lin Yutang

  Wise, Book, Men

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Age, Library, Delight

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• 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

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• Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

  William Penn

  Book, Mind, World

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.446

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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Beer

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• No two persons ever read the same book.

  Edmund Wilson

  Inspirational, Book, Two

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• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Writing, Men

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.570, Oxford University Press

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• There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Change, Live Life, Book

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Past, Thought Provoking

  Speech by Minister Pallo Jordan on launch of the South African Library Week at the Bessie Head Public Library, Msunduzi Minicipality, Pietermaritzburg, www.dac.gov.za. March 14, 2009.

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• A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Hero, Writing

  1905 Heretics, ch.15.

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• If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Years, Yesterday

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.1

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