Candle Quote by William Penn

“(advice to his children) Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many…

— William Penn

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's…

— Anna Quindlen

Reading is an act of civilization; it's one of the greatest acts of civilization because it takes the free raw material of the mind…

— Ben Okri

“Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's…

— Anna Quindlen

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.

— John Green

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in; those who have read of everything, are thought to understand…

— John Locke

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.

— Anne Lamott

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated,…

— Thomas S. Monson

“As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we…

— Marcel Proust

The point of reading is to inhabit a consciousness that doesn't belong to the reader, immersing yourself in a life that's wholly realized. And…

— Joshua Mohr

In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise…

— Maureen Corrigan