Reading Quotes - Page 5

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

The readings of Soviet society are as many as the experts you speak to. In my view, it's a society that is overdue for measures of democratization and organization.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

When I say to a parent, "read to a child", I don't want it to sound like medicine. I want it to sound like chocolate.

I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and so refused flatly to give me private lessons; but he gave me much more valuable advice to start reading more difficult mathematical books on my own and to study them as diligently as I could; if I came across some obstacle or difficulty, I was given permission to visit him freely every Sunday afternoon and he kindly explained to me everything I could not understand.

She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

Nothing would please us more than to see our beloved children form the habit of reading the Gospels - not merely from time to time, but every day.

The home is the child's first school, the parent is the child's first teacher, and reading is the child's first subject.

There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day.

A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

I was improvising before I was reading music. I was just trying to play things on the clarinet by ear. I think my ear is one of my greatest assets.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.