Reading Books Quotes - Page 10

• i really like reading books

  Dale Carnegie

  Book, Reading

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• Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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• The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

  Theodore Parker

  Education, Reading, Book

  "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" y Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, (p. 496), 2007.

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• I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Book, Reading, Men

  Speech in New York City, November 19, 1905.

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• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Life, Book, Thinking

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.174, Pan Macmillan

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• The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that they have the fewest dissenting opinions, that they have just those characteristics which are wholly incompatible with being an intellectual. This is a real internal psychological contradiction. People have to suppress the very questions which reading books raises.

  Mario Savio

  Military, Real, Reading

  "The University Has Become a Factory". Interview with Jack Fincher, Life magazine, February 26, 1965.

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• The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

  Joseph Joubert

  Book, Reading, Statistics

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• You can learn investing by reading books.

  Bill Ackman

  Book, Reading, Investing

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• Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

  T. S. Eliot

  Book, Reading, Offended

  1935 Religion and Literature.

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• We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies-in the minds of those closest to the work. It's been there in front of our noses all along while we've been running around chasing robots and reading books on how to become Japanese-or at least manage like them.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Business, Lying

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• We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Reading, People

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• Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Inspirational, Life, Book

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.38

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• I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Believe

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• I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.

  Gracie Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler, 2001.

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• When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, "It is talking to me, and about me".

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Bible, Biblical, Talking

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• I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Book, Reading, Mind

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.7, Grove Press

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• A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Book, Reading, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.166, Penguin

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• There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Reading, Home

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• I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

  Coolio

  Book, Reading, School

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Wisdom, Fear, Book

  Edward P. Morgan (1963). “Clearing the air”, Washington, D.C.

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• Reading will give you lasting pleasure.

  Laura Bush

  Book, Reading, Giving

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• There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

  Mary Ellen Chase

  Children, Book, Reading

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• What is reading but silent conversation?

  Walter Savage Landor

  Book, Reading, Library

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

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• Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Children, Reading, Literacy

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