Mahatma Gandhi Quotes, Reading Quotes, Writing Quotes

Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc.

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Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film. Some films can, but not too much.

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Tags : Alan Tudyk Quotes , Reading Quotes , Rumination Quotes

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe precise sense of the author. I think nothing is of any value in books, excepting the transcendental and extraordinary.

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

From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.

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If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

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Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not read what you shall learn, without asking, in the street and the train.

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

No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.

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Tags : Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes , Reading Quotes , People Quotes

A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

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

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

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I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading 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

Silence is difficult and arduous; it is not to be played with. It isn't something that you can experience by reading a book, or by listening to a talk, or by sitting together, or by retiring into a wood or a monastery. I am afraid none of these things will bring about this silence. This silence demands intense psychological work. You have to be burningly aware - aware of your speech, aware of your snobbishness, aware of your fears, your anxieties, your sense of guilt. And when you die to all that, then out of that dying comes the beauty of silence.

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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

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

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Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Reading Quotes , Men Quotes

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

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Reading history while you make history can teach you a lot.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Reading Quotes , Reading History Quotes

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , War Quotes , Reading Quotes