Reading Quotes

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We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to… — Samuel Johnson
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. — Lord Byron
I have been reading the Old Testament, a most bloodthirsty and perilous book for the young. Jehovah is beyond doubt the worst character in fiction. — Edwin Arlington Robinson
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination. — Thomas Jefferson
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.… — Mark Twain
The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. — Mark Twain
My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books. — Albert Einstein
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. — Oscar Levant
But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel… — Chaim Potok
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth
I think what has happened to our basketball team, we've been badly distracted. They're not reading too many positive things in the paper. — Bill Russell
When I go in for heart surgery, I want a full-time surgeon. I don't want some guy who just does it part-time between rounds of… — Don Meyer
My point here, young couples, is that baby-having is extremely serious business, and you probably don't have the vaguest idea what you're doing, as is… — Dave Barry
The joke in our family is that we can cry reading the phone book. — Ronald Reagan
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. — Isaac Watts

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