We Read Quotes

275 We Read quotes by 226 unique authors

We read to learn and to grow, to laugh, to be motivated, and to understand things we've never been exposed to. We read for strength… — Joan Bauer
We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and… — Charlotte Bronte
We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find. — Harold Bloom
I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my… — Keith Donohue
We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. — Rabindranath Tagore
There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book… — Kurt Vonnegut
While we read a novel, we are insane—bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices... Sanity returns (in… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We read books, talked books, argued over books and became dearer and dearer to one another. — Mary Ann Shaffer
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master… — Henry Miller
We are sometimes told that we are not a biblical church. We are a biblical church. This wonderful testament of the Old World, this great… — Gordon B. Hinckley
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author. — John Keats
We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on… — John Gardner
Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we… — Simone Weil
When we're done with it, we may find—if it's a good novel—that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that… — Ursula K. Le Guin
If we read history with an open mind, we cannot fail to conclude that, among all the military virtues, the energetic conduct of war has… — Carl von Clausewitz
Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. Jesus repeatedly emphasized the power of good thoughts and proper motives: 'Look unto me in every thought;… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories… — Eugene H. Peterson
We keep quiet about what we read. Our enjoyment of a book remains a jealously guarded secret. Perhaps because there`s no need to talk, or… — Daniel Pennac
We human beings build houses because we're alive but we write books because we're mortal. We live in groups because we're sociable but we read… — Daniel Pennac
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
We don’t exhaust the Bible even after reading it hundreds of times. Each time we read it we see it in a new light. That… — Swami Satchidananda
I sent a lot of publishing ideas to my publisher, about 30 of them. Each time except 3, i got a "rejection letter". This is… — James Dashner
We become the books we read. — Matthew Kelly
The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the… — Lewis Buzbee
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

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