Reading Quotes

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read.

Every day is a routine: you wake up, go to work or school, get tired, watch TV shows or read books, and then go to bed – and so on in a circle. Did you recognize yourself? It’s a shame because this is the wrong approach.

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child, and trust.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.