Monday 6 March 2017

SOME QUOTABLE QUOTES ABOUT READING BOOKS



1. "A book is a device to ignite the imagination." - Allen Bennet

2. “Books are the training weights of the mind.” - Epictetus

3. "Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." - Frederick Douglas

4. "The greatest gift is a passion for reading." - Elizabeth Hardwick

 5. “You are today who you’ll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.” - Charlie Jones

6. “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” - Walt Disney

7. “The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.” - Northrop Frye

8. "When you learn to read, you will be born again… and you will never be quite so alone again." - Rumer Godden

9. "The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession." - Sallust

10. “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

 11. “If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

12. “If you love books enough, books will love you back.” - Jo Walton

13. "Just as you feed your phone with charge from a wall socket, so does your brain feed from the books you read." - Enoc Wambugu

14. “Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life.' ” - Helen Exley

15. “If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one’s chances of survival increase with each book one reads.” - Sherman Alexie

16. "A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition... When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched." - Henry Miller

17. “Reading brings us unknown friends.” - Honoré de Balzac

18. "I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book." - J. K. Rowling

19. "The world is divided into 2 groups of people -- those who read books, and those who do what those who read books say." - Enoc Wambugu

20. “The book you don’t read won’t help.” - Jim Rohn

21. “To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.” - Edmund Burke

22. "A lot of people ask me if I were shipwrecked and could only have one book, what would it be? I always say, “How to Build a Boat.” - Stephen Wright

23. "Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything." - Tomie de Paola

24. "The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries." - Descartes

25. "A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read." - Mark Twain

26. "He that loves reading has everything within his reach." - William Godwin

27. "Empty heads and hearts hold people back, not empty pockets." - Norman Vincent Peale

28. "Readers are leaders. If the clothes you wear are more expensive than the books you read, then you are not ready for greatness." - Okereke Izu

29. "Read everything you can get your hands on. Read until words become your friends. Then when you need to find one, they will jump into your mind, waving their hands for you to pick them. And you can select whichever you like..." - Karen Witemeyer

30. "Those who watch TV will always be led by those who read books." - Enoc Wambugu

31. "Oxygen is found in air but sound knowledge is found in books." - Enoc Wambugu

32. "I just feel that a man with no passion for reading books is just like a little baby with no passion for breast feeding. I wish there was a way I could hammer this into people’s mind. We can’t exhaust the benefits of educating our minds!" - Enoc Wambugu

33. “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” - Confucius

34. “When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.” - Maya Angelou

35. “When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.” -  Virginia Woolf

36. "Do not conform to the average pattern of this world. Rather, get transformed through constant renewal of your mind..." - The Bible (Rom. 12:2)

 Be challenge to read books, it pays...!

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