R Quotes
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“Reading is a mighty engine, beside which steam and electricity sink into insignificance.”
Source: Libraries as Related to the Educational Work of the State
“Reading is a particularly effective counterbalance to many of the negative effects of other forms of entertainment we consume... Holding a book in your hands and slowing down to read offers an antidote to digital overload.”
Source: The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
“Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.”
“Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.”
“reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.”
Source: This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage
“Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.”
“Reading is a rendezvous with your soul.”
“Reading is a sacred-paradise.”
Source: Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
“Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.”
“Reading is a solitary pursuit, even a lone passage to a separate world. Yet to read in public, amid strangers, gives it another dimension. Sometimes the city speaks to the page, or the page seems to open up to people passing by. An outdoor reader shares the pulse of a timeless urban conversation between the world and the written word.”
“Reading is a staple of life, like bread or water. Or chocolate.”
Source: A Misty Mourning
“Reading is a stout-hearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slam-dunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.”
“Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.”
“Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.”
Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“Reading is a unique form of consciousness, while we read we direct attention outward to the page but also at the same time inwards as we imagine and mentally stimulate.”
Source: Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again
“Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.”
“Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.”
“Reading is a wonderful wonder.”
“Reading is about enjoying yourself and learning about the human experience, so go for it.”
Source: Learning Outside The Lines : Two Ivy League Students With Learning Disabilities And ADHD Give You The Tools For Academic Success and Educational Revolution
“Reading is actually plunging into one's own identity and, one hopes, emerging stronger than before. You see, unconsciously, we are seeking to find an affirmation to our own world perception and set of values.”
“Reading is alive and well and will get more alive and more well. Reading on tablets (or whatever the next tech device will be) is the future - and the future is now.”
“Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.”
“Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.”
“Reading is always a way of forming a bond with other people. I'm not very good at socializing - I quite like spending time alone - so reading is a way of engaging quite deeply with the way other people think. Quite often when you meet other people socially you don't get to have a conversation of any depth. You end up talking about how well or how badly someone is doing at school or something of that sort. Questions like, "What we are," "Who we are," "Where are we going," you get those from literature and from people that spend some time thinking.”
“Reading is an act of friendly isolation. When we are reading, we make ourselves unapproachable in a tactful way. Perhaps that is exactly what has interested painters for so long in the portrayal of readers: showing people in a state of deepest intimacy not intended for outsiders. If the viewer were to approach the reader in real life, this condition would immediately be threatened. So painting allows us to see what we actually cannot see, or see only at the price of destroying it.”
Source: Women Who Read Are Dangerous
“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.”
“Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.”
“Reading is an activity of civilized beings.”
“Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.”
Source: How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
“Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”
Source: A Universal History of Iniquity
“Reading is an addiction, much like living and breathing is an addiction.”
“Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.”
“Reading is an enlightenment of the soul.”
“Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.”
“Reading is an intelligent way of not having to think.”
“Reading is an investment that will never give negative returns.”
“Reading is another thing that has made me more human by exposing me to worlds I might never have entered and people I might never meet.”
“Reading is at the beginning of the social contract.”
“Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.”
“Reading is at the threshold of spiritual life; it can introduce us to it; it does not constitute it. There are, however, certain cases, certain pathological cases, so to speak, of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline and assume the task, through repeated stimulation, of continuously reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the spirit.”
“Reading is at the threshold of the spiritual life; it can introduce us to it. It does not constitute it ... There are certain cases of spiritual depression in which reading can become a sort of curative discipline ... reintroducing a lazy mind into the life of the Spirit.”
“Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.”
“Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.”
“Reading is constructive knowledge; you can illuminate your ways and life.”
“Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.”
Source: Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
“Reading is dreaming with open eyes”
“Reading is dreaming. Reading is entering a world of imagination shared between reader and author. Reading is getting beyond the words to the story or meaning underneath.”
“Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.”
“Reading is equivalent to another life.”
“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.”
Source: Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays