Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John WesleyTags: reading books love knowledge
Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
Jane SmileyEducation...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
George Macaulay TrevelyanTags: reading education history social-commentary nonfiction
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Francis BaconTags: reading books understanding
Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
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Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Dorothy L. SayersTags: reading books growth character-development
The world was hers for the reading.
Betty SmithA book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
Jorge Luis BorgesTags: words reading books literature
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C.S. LewisTags: reading books reality literature
No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books.
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