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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Allan Bloom

Stichwörter: reading books vision belief self-deception narrowmindedness self-limiting-beliefs

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

Stichwörter: humor reading books television

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

Francis Bacon

Stichwörter: reading

An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.

Thomas Wharton

Stichwörter: reading books

Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.

Arnold Lobel

Stichwörter: reading books

I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.

Philip Pullman

Stichwörter: reading writing

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Stichwörter: libraries reading books freedom censorship thought

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

Stichwörter: reading books knowledge