Best We Read Thoughts

275 We Read quotes by 226 unique authors

When we study Shakespeare on the page, for academic purposes, we may require all kinds of help. Generally, we read him in modern spelling and… — James Fenton
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. — Jean de La Fontaine
Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness. We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, and avoid others,… — Sam Harris
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. — John Locke
I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery… — Rachel Nichols
I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps?… — Susan Orlean
On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we… — Kid Rock
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. — Carl Sandburg
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It… — Radhanath Swami
The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and… — Ted Turner
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
We read to know that we are not alone. — William Nicholson
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to… — Ursula K. Le Guin
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing… — Nick Hornby
Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering… — Helen Keller
When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of… — Milorad PaviÄ‡
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another… — Sam Harris
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed… — Henry David Thoreau
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;… — Harold Bloom
Trees for example, carry the memory of rainfal. In their rings we read ancient weather - storms, sunlight and temperatures, the growing seasons of centuries.… — Anne Michaels
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find… — Anna Quindlen
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. — Alberto Manguel
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest… — Vladimir Nabokov

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