Books Quote by Dōgen Download Open image ““Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.”” — Dōgen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Education Give up Let go Reading Study Studying Zen
“Read,read,read! It is good and promotes better academics. It helps in all sorts of ways. So read no matter what!” — Jennifer Copy Share Image
“I have a good many books on hand, but I am sorry to say that as usual I make small progress with any.” — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“Do not say I have no time to read. Set a daily time (15-20 minutes)for reading. Reading is rich source of wisdom and knowledge.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” — Atwood H. Townsend Copy Share Image
“By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Never stop learning. You already like to read, which is an advantage. Read everything. Newspapers, magazines, books. Be informed. Be up-to-date. Be both interesting… — Suanne Laqueur Copy Share Image
“Read regularly. Reading for thirty minutes a day will do wonders for you.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. — Dogen Copy Share Image
When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe. — Dogen Copy Share Image
Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them,… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Though it has no thought of keeping watch, it's not for naught that the scarecrow stands in the grain field. — Dogen Copy Share Image
Continuous practice, day after day, is the most appropriate way of expressing gratitude. This means that you practice continuously, without wasting a single day… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?” — Dogen Copy Share Image
Realization doesn't destroy the individual any more than the reflection of the moon breaks a drop of water. A drop of water can reflect… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“If you attain unsurpassable, complete enlightenment, all sentient beings also attain it. The reason is that all sentient beings are aspects of enlightenment.” — Dōgen Copy Share Image
To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. — Dogen Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
