Reading Books Quotes - Page 20

• However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

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• You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Book, Reading, Character

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• In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Civilization, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Letters and Social Aims”, p.143

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• Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

  Vernon Howard

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.

  Gary Oldman

  Book, Reading, Ideas

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• In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

  Susie Bright

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.

  Maya Angelou

  Reading, Giving, Looks

  Twitter post from Oct 26, 2016

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• There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Reading, Writing

  'The Literary Character' (1795) ch. 11

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• Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I'm looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Book, Reading, Media

  Facebook post, www.facebook.com. January 3, 2015.

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• You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice to the whole world. For the whole world is one; you are rated a very insignificant part of it, and therefore it is right for you that you should serve your millions of brothers rather than aggrandise this little self

  Swami Vivekananda

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1341, Manonmani Publishers

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• Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

  Ramakrishna

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• We need to repent of our sin for not loving our children. Spend some time in repentance and read God’s Word and reading books about motherhood. You may be depleted and need fresh vision and perspective in regards to your role as a mom. Find a way to be alone for a few hours and study God’s Word as your role as a mother. If you are not enjoying your children if you’re lacking joy as a mother may I appeal to you to take whatever measures necessary to change. Repent and find a mature woman who enjoys her role as a mother to encourage you and hold you accountable to this period of your life.

  Carolyn Mahaney

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Brother, Book, Reading

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

  W. H. Auden

  Real, Book, Reading

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• I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Education, Grandchildren, Dice

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

  Edmund Burke

  Reading, Book, Thinking

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• The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

  James Joyce

  Reading, Demand, Should

  Quoted in F. L. Lucas, The Decline and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (1936)

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Inspirational, Sweet

  "Morituri Salutamus" st. 21 (1875)

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• The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Anger, Reading

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 19 (1891)

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• No two persons ever read the same book.

  Edmund Wilson

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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• You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

  Dr. Seuss

  Education, Children, Book

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• The more you read, the more things you will know.

  Dr. Seuss

  Educational, Reading, Places To Go

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• A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

  Edward P. Morgan

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

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

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• Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.

  Francine Prose

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Francine Prose (2012). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.6, Union Books

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