book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.” Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” Sir Richard Steele
“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.” Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
“I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.” Charles De Secondat (1689 - 1755)
“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden
“Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying, or meditating, or endeavoring something for the public good.” Thomas a Kempis (1380 - 1471)
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.” Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.” Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.” Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
“The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.” Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
“I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books.” Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), Address to US Congress, 1975
“If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten, either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing.” Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” John Locke (1632 - 1704)
“Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?” Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)
“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.” Robert Byrne
“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.” Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.” Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
No comments:
Post a Comment