Quotes about Reading

'Sartor Resartus' is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.

It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.

You will write better letters, you will converse better, you will enjoy social intercourse better if you read helpful reading matter from books and read newspapers very sparingly.

Para ministrar a palavra de Deus, os pastores-teólogos precisam ler não só a BÃ

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.

When caught reading the Bible, W.C. Fields said T'm looking for loopholes.' The Bible is nothing but a succession of civil rights struggles by the Jewish people against their oppressors.

If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

I try to get through a book every two weeks.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently.