Quotes About Reading

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

Don't consider me too demanding if I ask you once again to set great store by holy books and read them as much as you can. This spiritual reading is as necessary to you as the air you breathe.

People don't see this side of me. They don't know I read, like, 800 million spiritual books. Lately I am just really getting into a lot of spirituality.

The book you don't read won't help.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

I hated to read. My mother could not get me to read. I'm going through the same thing with my daughter now. I love to read now, but I don't remember reading.

I don't think anybody should read anything except for fun because you won't learn anything unless you enjoy it.

How did you . . . pass the time?' Sunday asked. 'You couldn't just ching out of it, could you?' 'We had a different form of chinging,' Eunice said. 'An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it "reading".

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

The only thing you have to absolutely know is the location of the library.

Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theatre is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.

Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits

The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library.

Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.