Reading Quotes - Page 3

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

The great enemy of the salvation of man, in my opinion, never invented a more effective means of limiting Christianity from the world than by persuading mankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools.

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

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

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

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic program, then if you can read you can lead. When the leader gets killed while you're reading from page 13 of your charismatic program, you can bury the man with honors, then continue the plan by reading from page 14. Let's keep on.

Your call will become clear as as your mind is transformed by the reading of Scripture and the internal work of God's Spirit. The Lord never hides His will from us. In time, as you obey the call first to follow, your destiny will unfold before you. The difficulty will lie in keeping other concerns from diverting your attention.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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

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

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

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

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.

The very practice of reading [the Bible] will have a purifying effect upon your mind and heart. Let nothing take the place of this daily exercise.

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

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