Quotes about Reading
My fondness for good books was my salvation.
— Teresa of Avila
I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.
— Mike Huckabee
I didn't have any brothers or sisters, so I did a lot of stuff where I entertained myself playing games, reading a lot, a lot of fantasy novel stuff.
— Bill Bailey
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
— George Bernard Shaw
There was no better way to understand life than to live it—if not through your own life, then through another's. There was once a man who owned a field. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Not to read was to turn your back on the wisest minds.
— Ted Dekker
The surest way to stop growing is to stop reading.
— Fred Craddock
Spiritual reading, therefore, is slow, deliberate, meditative reading in which we allow the words to penetrate our heart and question our spirit.
— Henri Nouwen
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
— Henry David Thoreau
Books which are books are all that you want, and there are but half a dozen in any thousand.
— Henry David Thoreau
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature and, through her, God.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men have learned to read to serve a paltry convenience, as they have learned to cipher in order to keep accounts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual exercise they know little or nothing.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most men are satisfied if they read or hear read, and perchance have been convicted by the wisdom of one good book, the Bible, and for the rest of their lives vegetate and dissipate their faculties in what is called easy reading
— Henry David Thoreau