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Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes about Reading

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What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person

Eleanor Roosevelt
Running, Reading, Reflection
Eleanor Roosevelt (2011). “You Learn By Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life”, p.15, Harper Collins

the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Reading, Luxury, Bed
Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

Of all the nations in the Western world, the United States, with the most money and the most time, has the fewest readers of books per capita. This is an incalculable loss. This, too, is one of the few civilized nations in the world which is unable to support a single magazine devoted solely to books.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Book, Reading, Loss

Feelings, too, are facts. Emotion is a fact. Human experience is a fact. It is often possible to gain more real insight into human beings and their motivation by reading great fiction than by personal acquaintance.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Motivation, Real, Reading

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