Re Reading Quotes

Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Only God knows the good that can come about by reading one good Catholic book.

Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Think before you speak. Read before you think.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento)

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

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

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

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

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.