Quotes About Reading

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands.

I believe in some parts of Nietzsche, I prefer to read him in sections; In my heart of hearts I suspect him of being the one modern christian; Take notice I never have read him except in English selections.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.

Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley's mother counseled him: 'Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.

There is much reading material that is available which is either time-wasting or corrupting. The best yardstick to use in discerning the worth of true knowledge and learning is to go first and foremost to the words of the Lord's prophets.

La lectura, para los deconstructivos, es una tarea infinita y no se entiene que tengan necesidad de más de un libro

La lectura, para los deconstructivos, es una tarea infinita y no se entiene que tengan necesidad de más de un libro. (Diccionario de las artes)

And old Padre Jose telling him to read as much as he could for the world was open only to those who could read and this skill was the most precious gift that any teacher could give. -Istak

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

You must read, Alice, before it's too late. You must fill your mind with the invented images of the past: the more the better.

Lo que quiero deciros con esto, Señorías, es que, enloquecido por la lectura, no dudará el hombre en dar el salto y convertirse de simple lector en pretencioso escritor.

Si yo tuviera hambre, no pediría un pan. Pediría medio pan y un libro.

Y que es preciso que los pueblos lean para que aprendan no sólo el verdadero sentido de la libertad, sino el sentido actual de la comprensión mutua y de la vida. — Dime qué lees y te diré quién eres

No pretendemos en ningún punto demostrar que nuestra lectura de Marx sea la única posible. Tal lectura «única posible» nunca existe con referencia a la obra de un pensador. Lo que sí hay son lecturas imposibles, o, para ser más exactos, presuntas lecturas que no son lecturas. En otras palabras: el conjunto de las lecturas posibles podrá ser «infinito», pero es todo lo contrario de indeterminado.

And just what is the most precious thing in life that riches can supply? Easy. For me, it's Time. Time. Time to read and write poetry if I want to. Or to write a book if it takes my fancy. Time to travel on the slightest whim, to walk in the woods, to think, to commission art, to read, to drink, to hang out with friends and loved ones … to do just about anything really, as long as it does not involve day after grinding day making money in an office or a factory for somebody else.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

Os livros ou, dizia o pai com sulcos de muito matutar na testa, os cabrões dos livros. O rapaz tinha contraído a febre de ler.

La lectura es muy personal, recomendar un libro es como recomendar una medicina, no existe un genérico para todos.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.

I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription.