Reading Quotes - Page 9

• You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

  Dr. Seuss

  Reader

  "I can read with my eyes shut!".

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• The mind should be accustomed to make wise reflections, and draw curious conclusions as it goes along; the habitude of which made Pliny the Younger affirm that he never read book so bad but he drew some profit from it.

  Laurence Sterne

  Wise, Book, Reflection

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman”, p.43

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• A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

  Samuel Rogers

  Men, Doe, Fleas

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• It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.

  Richard Baxter

  Wise, Book, Loss

  Richard Baxter (1847). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works, and Times ...”, p.731

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• Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

  Christopher Morley

  Wisdom, Silly, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.294, Melville House

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• For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Book, Ignorance

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 30, 2010

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• Read as much as you can, discarding negative or disturbing information. Learn by doing, and the Goddess and God will bless you with all that you truly need.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Religious, Learning

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.32, Llewellyn Worldwide

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• What is reading but silent conversation?

  Walter Savage Landor

  Book, Library, Quiet

  Walter Savage Landor (1826). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen”, p.497

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• When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.

  Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

  Library, Steps, Literacy

  "O" Magazine, December 2003.

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• When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.

  Jean Fritz

  Book, Library, Christmas Eve

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Funny, Book, Giving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

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• People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Taken, Science

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.55

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• The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Light, Hands

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

  Noam Chomsky

  Education, Teaching, Writing

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• He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

  Martial

  Education, Writing

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• Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

  James D. Watson

  Education, Writing, Interesting

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• Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods.

  Neil Postman

  Education, Children, Writing

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.70, Vintage

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• You can never be an artist if your work comes without effort. That is the problem with modernink from a bottle. You do not have to think. You simply write what is swimming on the top of your brain. And the top is nothing but pond scum, dead leaves, and mosquito spawn.

  Amy Tan

  Education, Writing, Swimming

  Amy Tan (2001). “The Bonesetter's Daughter”, p.142, Penguin

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• Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

  Lev S. Vygotsky

  Education, Meaningful, Children

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• We do not truly own our thoughts or experiences until we have negotiated them with ourselvesand for this writing is the prime medium.

  Carl Bereiter

  Education, Writing, Prime

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• He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.

  Isaac Barrow

  Book, Thinking, Weather

  "The theological works of Isaac Barrow".

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• All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

  Richard de Bury

  Book, Would Be, World

  Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

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• Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters which strongly interest the passions, and engage universal attention. It is not difficult to obtain readers, when we discuss a question which every one is desirous to understand, which is debated in every assembly, and has divided the nation into parties; or when we display the faults or virtues of him whose public conduct has made almost every man his enemy or his friend.

  Samuel Johnson

  Party, Passion, Character

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.379

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• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Age, Novelty, Delight

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• Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Book, Unread Books, Valuable

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.777, Random House

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