History Quote by J Oswald Sanders

“Reading is on the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it.”

— Marcel Proust

“The leader who intends to grow spiritually and intellectually will be reading constantly.”

— J Oswald Sanders

“Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable future: the…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has…

— Haruki Murakami

“Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous…

— Henry David Thoreau

Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain…

— Marcel Proust

“...the point, the essential quality of the act of reading, now and always, is that it tends to no foreseeable end, to no conclusion.…

— Alberto Manguel

“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.”

— Paul Leicester Ford

“We feel very strongly that our own wisdom begins where that of the author leaves off and we could like him to provide us…

— Marcel Proust

“Reading is of great service towards procuring recollection in any one who proceeds in this way; and it is even necessary for him, however…

— St. Teresa Of Avila

Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however, certain cases,…

— Marcel Proust