Adventure Quote by Harold Bloom Download Open image ““We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”” — Harold Bloom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Books Books-reading Psychology Reading
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is… — J Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Reading is an activity that not only expands the mind but also enhances the soul and cultivates ones character.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reading is a way of disciplining our minds, and it is also one of the most efficient means of mental escape.” — Andrew Piper Copy Share Image
“It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We all see what we want to see. That’s the miracle of reading. The way it stimulates the human mind to create its own… — C.A. Pack Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.” — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Read every day something no one else is reading.Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Brecht was a cynical bohemian bogey of the middle classes, but also much more than a mere provocateur. He developed and dramatized his political… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The morality of scholarship, as currently practiced, is to encourage everyone to replace difficult pleasures by pleasures universally accessible precisely because they are easier. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share Image
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
