Quotes about Reading
In The Gutenberg Elegies, Sven Birkerts laments the loss of "deep reading," which requires intense concentration, a conscious lowering of the gates of perception, and a slower pace.
— Philip Yancey
The leader who intends to grow spiritually and intellectually will be reading constantly.
— J. Oswald Sanders
These days, the practice of reading spiritual classics is on the wane. We have more leisure today than ever before in history, but many people claim to have no time for reading. A spiritual leader cannot use that excuse.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the mind.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Indeed, if we read merely to stock our head with ideas, to feel superior to others, or to appear learned, then our reading is useless and vain.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Why Read? "Read to refill the wells of inspiration
— J. Oswald Sanders
It's a very good historical book about history.
— Dan Quayle
He told them, Worse and worse: he also set to talking to them again; but they began to be hardened. They also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and surly carriages to him: sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes they would quite neglect him. Wherefore he began to retire himself to his chamber, to pray for and pity them, and also to condole his own misery; he would also walk solitarily in the fields, sometimes reading, and sometimes praying:
— John Bunyan
Today is a reader, tomorrow's a leader...
— John Maxwell
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
— Ellen Glasgow
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.
— Malcolm X
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
— Martin Luther