Reading Quotes - Page 6

• Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Book, Space

  Joseph Addison (1837). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314”, p.148

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• I didn't want to teach my kid how to read, so I used to read to him at night and close the book at the most interesting part.  He said, “What happened then, daddy?”  I said, “If you learn to read, you can find out.  I'm too tired to read.  I'll read to you tomorrow.”  So, he had a need to want to learn how to read.  Don't teach children how to read.  Don't teach them mathematics.  Give them a reason to want it.  In school, they're working ass-backwards.

  Jacque Fresco

  Motivational, Children, Book

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• Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Men, Choices

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 10, 2013

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• God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

  William Ellery Channing

  God, Spiritual, Book

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

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• Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Literacy, Force, Paragraph

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Literary Remains”, p.316

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• The end of reading is not more books but more life.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Literacy, Ends

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• Books worth reading are worth re-reading.

  Holbrook Jackson

  Book, Writing, Worth Reading

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• All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

  Robert Frost

  Education, Writing, Learning

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.108, Harvard University Press

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• Learn to read slow; all other graces will follow in their proper places.

  William Walker

  Learning, Grace

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• Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Life, Learning

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• Writing a long essay is probably the most complex constructive act that most human beings areever expected to perform.

  Carl Bereiter

  Education, Writing, Long

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• Reading is seeing by proxy.

  Herbert Spencer

  Library, Proxy, Seeing

  Herbert Spencer (1874). “The Study of Sociology”, p.364, London, D. Appleton

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• There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Mind, Laziness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.190

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• Reading is a means of thinking with another person's mind; it forces you to stretch your own.

  Charles Scribner IV

  Healing, Mean, Thinking

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• Reading without purpose is sauntering not exercise.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Exercise, Purpose

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• Real luxury is time and opportunity to read for pleasure

  Jane Brody

  Real, Opportunity, Luxury

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• Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Style, Purpose

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An essay on his life and genius”, p.292

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• Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Opposites, Attention Deficit Disorder

  "I Am Just a Reader" by Deborah Plummer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Company, Immorality

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages.

  William Hazlitt

  Hurt, Flames, Giving

  William Hazlitt, Herschel Moreland Sikes, William Hallam Bonner, Gerald Lahey (1979). “The Letters of William Hazlitt”, p.224, Springer

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• A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Great Work, States, Musings

  "The literary character". Book by Isaac D'Israeli (Chapter XII, last lines), 1795.

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• Reading Chaucer is like brushing through the dewy grass at sunrise.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sunrise, Grass, Chaucer

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• Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Book, Men, Thinking

  Richard Henry Stoddard (1903). “Recollections: Personal and Literary”

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• A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Fall, Fever, Students

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says Private - grownups keep out: a children sprawled on the bed, reading.

  Anne Fadiman

  Children, Book, Doors

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