We Read Quotes
275 We Read quotes by 226 unique authors
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Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit.
— Benjamin Franklin
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We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing…
— Jennifer Lee
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When asked how he became so successful in investing, Buffett answered: 'we read hundreds and hundreds of annual reports every year.
— Warren Buffett
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When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything.…
— Pope Francis
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We have to admit that there is an immeasurable distance between all that we read in the Bible and the practice of the Church and…
— Jacques Ellul
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When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.
— Kate DiCamillo
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I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
— Neil Patrick Harris
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What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library…
— Guillermo del Toro
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It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try…
— John Hay
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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Before college, I hadn't voluntarily read anything that might be called literature; I didn't think I'd understand it; I never seemed to understand my English…
— Melissa Bank
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One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient,…
— Anne Graham Lotz
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... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.
— Louis L'Amour
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As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that…
— Adrienne Rich
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When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing.
— Blaise Pascal
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of…
— Francesca Lia Block
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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss,…
— Elizabeth Drew
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When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the…
— Martin Amis
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every…
— Alphonse de Lamartine
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I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so…
— Nikki Reed
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When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We…
— Sam Raimi
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I know many Catholics love God with all their heart. I have genuine respect for anyone who truly has given their life to Christ. We…
— Bill McCartney
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I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from…
— Paget Brewster
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