Quotes about Reading

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of the long day makes that day happier.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier. [Allein schon das Wissen, dass einen am Ende eines langen Tages ein gutes Buch erwartet, macht diesen Tag zu einem glücklicheren.]

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

But literature is unique. To understand literature, you read it with your head, but you interpret it with your heart. The two are forced to work together—and, quite frankly, they often don't get along.

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

You will write better letters, you will converse better, you will enjoy social intercourse better if you read helpful reading matter from books and read newspapers very sparingly.

Para ministrar a palavra de Deus, os pastores-teólogos precisam ler não só a BÃ

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.