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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me Picture Quote #1

There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour Picture Quote #1

To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground Picture Quote #1

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me Picture Quote #1

Books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation Picture Quote #1

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf Picture Quote #1

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A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading Picture Quote #1

Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity Picture Quote #1

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves Picture Quote #1

I think taste is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves Picture Quote #1

[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy... Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes Picture Quote #1

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading

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There are times when I think that the reading that I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive Picture Quote #1

Children of the future age reading this indignant page, know that in a former time love! Sweet love! Was thought a crime Picture Quote #1

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life Picture Quote #1

And how often do we meet the man who prefaces his remarks with: I was reading a book last night... In the too loud, overenunciated fashion of one who might be saying: I keep a hippogryph in my basement. Reading confers status Picture Quote #1

There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book - any sort of book - is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of warm approbation which they use otherwise when referring to pregnant women, or the newly dead Picture Quote #1

This is, after all, a book about reading, and the kind of reader I am addressing does not care primarily about being in fashion Picture Quote #1

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I was reading Dorothy Dix this afternoon; she says that it is permissible for a young man to tell a girl he knows fairly well that she has pretty ankles; from this I assume that the better he knows her the higher he may praise her Picture Quote #1

Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading... This joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication Picture Quote #1

An important aspect of nonconformity was its cult of the bible as the fount of all wisdom. But the bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous Picture Quote #1

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication Picture Quote #1

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need Picture Quote #1

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best Picture Quote #1

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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book Picture Quote #1

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France Picture Quote #1

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity Picture Quote #1

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading Picture Quote #1

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I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading, I cannot sit and think. Books think for me (Reading Quotes) There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour (Reading Quotes) To think without a proper amount of good reading is to limit our thinking to our own tiny plot of ground (Reading Quotes) I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me (Reading Quotes) Books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation (Reading Quotes) There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf (Reading Quotes) A book may be regarded as irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading (Reading Quotes) Reading is a choice. The will to do depends the reader. We may or may not do it but when we kill reading, we kill a purposeful mind. Reading a page of a purposeful book per day is not only a great medicine to the mind but also a powerful antidote to ignorance and mediocrity (Reading Quotes) I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves (Reading Quotes) I think taste is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves (Reading Quotes) [When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy... Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes (Reading Quotes) What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change (Reading Quotes) There are times when I think that the reading that I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and make me indecisive (Reading Quotes) Children of the future age reading this indignant page, know that in a former time love! Sweet love! Was thought a crime (Reading Quotes) Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life (Reading Quotes) And how often do we meet the man who prefaces his remarks with: I was reading a book last night... In the too loud, overenunciated fashion of one who might be saying: I keep a hippogryph in my basement. Reading confers status (Reading Quotes) There are great numbers of people to whom the act of reading a book - any sort of book - is wondrous; they speak of the reader in the tone of warm approbation which they use otherwise when referring to pregnant women, or the newly dead (Reading Quotes) This is, after all, a book about reading, and the kind of reader I am addressing does not care primarily about being in fashion (Reading Quotes) I was reading Dorothy Dix this afternoon; she says that it is permissible for a young man to tell a girl he knows fairly well that she has pretty ankles; from this I assume that the better he knows her the higher he may praise her (Reading Quotes) Then I though of reading - the nice and subtle happiness of reading... This joy not dulled by age, this polite and unpunishable vice, this selfish, serene, lifelong intoxication (Reading Quotes) An important aspect of nonconformity was its cult of the bible as the fount of all wisdom. But the bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous (Reading Quotes) This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication (Reading Quotes) The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need (Reading Quotes) Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best (Reading Quotes) The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book (Reading Quotes) Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France (Reading Quotes) Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity (Reading Quotes) What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge (Reading Quotes) 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 (Reading Quotes) We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading (Reading Quotes)

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