Browsing Topic Best Reading Quotes

Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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

If your starting point for understanding humanity is a racialist viewpoint, with superiority and inferiority projected onto people because of the color of their skin, then it’s so easy to take the next step of justifying that point theologically and reading it into the Christian scripture. And that makes it harder to understand what scripture is actually saying!

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

Read what you love until you love to read.

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you do, you’re misinformed.

Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for the teen to have sex. Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, the more children learn abour sexuality from talking with their parents and teachers and reading accurate books, the less they feel compelled to find out for themselves.

If you make people uniform, you can control them. If you teach people to read, and think, and question things, you lose control. So, the best idea is to separate people if you wish to maintain a monetary system. It’s called divide and conquer. By dividing people, they’re not a threat, you can control them.

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.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.

Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.

There’s no architect who doesn’t want to build a library – and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading – because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity – that is a very exciting area in architecture.

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.

The six and one-fourth hours’ television watching (the American average per day) which non-reading children do is what is called alpha-level learning. The mind needn’t make any pictures since the pictures are provided, so the mind cuts current as low as it can.

The fact that you see salarymen reading manga and pornography on the trains and being unafraid, unashamed or anything, is something you wouldn’t have seen 30 years ago, with people who grew up under a different system of government. They would have been far too embarrassed to open a book of cartoons or dirty pictures on a train. But that’s what we have now in Japan. We are a country of children.

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more.

I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

I don’t love reading so much, but I love book shopping.