Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Reading Quotes, Mind Quotes

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Reading is one of the true pleasures of life. In our age of mass culture, when so much that we encounter is abridged,adapted, adulterated, shredded, and boiled down, it is mind-easing and mind-inspiring to sit down privately with a congenial book.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Reading Quotes , Heart Quotes

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

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Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Reading Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Reading Quotes , Winter Quotes

Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.

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Tags : John Clare Quotes , Dream Quotes , Reading Quotes

One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Reading Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

I'll read enough When I do see the very book indeed Where all my sins are writ, and that's myself.

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Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

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To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

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There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

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My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

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Bible reading is an education in itself.

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I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

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If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

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