Top 52 Quotes About Reading Minds
#1. Reading will put you into the minds and hearts of others. It might help you understand why other people do what they do sometimes.
Scott Simon
#2. In reading, a lonely quiet concert is given to our minds; all our mental faculties will be present in this symphonic exaltation.
Stephane Mallarme
#3. Great bodies die but great minds don't die! Inside the tomb of great men lay dead body's but at the library of great men lay the living minds of dead bodies!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#4. There's only about about 6 to 8 inches between an open book and a human being's heart. A lot can happen in those 7 inches. Perspectives, fresh perspectives occur and minds expand, and I love fiction and I feel like it's a possibility for transformation.
Aline Ohanesian
#5. Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors.
Gary Shteyngart
#6. We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.
Quintilian
#7. Ut it's one of the reflections of our times. Young minds today are dulled by television and other visual sensations. When reading was one of the few pleasures available, we could recite whole passages to eachother.
Gloria Naylor
#8. Three hundred years from now children will be learning about a lost art that has the ability to:
Enrich minds,
Increase intelligence,
Reduce stress
Increase knowledge
Increase concentration
IT'S CALLED READING
Steven Aitchison
#9. Now I will be anything else you please, except dull. You may say I have been dull already? As I am an honest woman, I don't agree with you. There are some people who bring dull minds to their reading - and them blame the writer for it. I say no more.
Wilkie Collins
#10. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This is to me is a miracle.
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
George Eliot
#12. Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
Henry Ward Beecher
#13. Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and, in this way, push out the boundaries of our own lifes.
Joan Lingard
#14. Even though poetry was written for the 'minds ear' as well as the physical ear, the minds ear can be trained only by the other ... which comes back to reading poetry aloud ...
Yvor Winters
#15. Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.
Kat Lowe
#17. I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
Kurt Vonnegut
#18. Reading well, which means reading actively, is thus not only a good in itself, nor is it merely a means to advancement in our work or career. It also serves to keep our minds alive and growing.
Mortimer J. Adler
#19. Reading differently means shifting what we take into our minds because what we read affects how we think and how we feel about ourselves.
Debra Smouse
#20. They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people brought up reading for facts, who know what's going to come next and want to know what's coming next, and get angry at surprises.
William Gaddis
#21. But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity
Joanna Scott
#22. Reading is the unhindered flow of ideas between minds.
A. Umaz
#23. In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany, solitary and content, as if, in fact, cloistered.
Jane Smiley
#24. Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their minds all the time, enlarging their vocabulary, making discoveries - it is all new to them.
Joan Aiken
#26. You write out of experience, and a large part of that experience is the life of the spirit; reading is the liberation into the minds of others.
Penelope Lively
#27. I'd forgotten that human minds are easy to shatter as eggshells," Rhysand said, and ran a finger across the base of my throat. I shuddered, my eyes burning. "Look at how delighful she is - look how she's trying not to cry out in terror. It would be quick, I promise.
Sarah J. Maas
#28. Now, 75 years [after To Kill a Mockingbird], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
[Open Letter, O Magazine, July 2006]
Harper Lee
#29. The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye.
Paul Fry
#30. Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon
#32. Reading mysteries: the recreation of intelligent minds.
Donna Andrews
#33. Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#34. They are a brilliant device for shape-shifting as we can slip into the skin of authors from other times, other cultural backgrounds, brilliant minds who give us a new perspective on life and the world - something we all need from time to time. - Cornelia Funke
Jen Campbell
#35. Dylan prided himself in the gift of reading women's minds. They were such fickle little creatures, as apt to change their minds as their thongs.
Cat Byrd
#36. Reading gives us the furniture of our minds. Reading can spell the difference between independence and slavery; liberation and isolation. Without reading, our history would have turned out differently. Reading made and shaped our heroes. Reading liberates.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#37. And if you have any doubts," Peter added, "Corinithians overtly tells us that the parables have two layers of meaning: 'milk for babes and meat for men - where the milk is watered-down reading for infantile minds, and the meat is the true message, accessible only to mature minds.
Dan Brown
#38. Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, feeding upon the paper's body with their starving minds.
Munia Khan
#39. Books have immortalized great minds. Books have kept ancients secrets alive. A world which least value books, least value the real essence of wisdom and least know how to preserve what is precious!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#40. Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.
Peter Ustinov
#41. The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.
William Hazlitt
#42. Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators censor or ban books. It's why it was illegal to teach slaves to read. It's why girls in developing countries have acid thrown in their faces when they walk to school.
Karin Slaughter
#43. The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
Philip Guedalla
#44. Every time a written word is put to page it is the opportunity to expand our minds, whether we are the writer or the reader. Enjoy the journey wherever it may take you!
K. Lamb
#45. Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.
Anonymous
#46. When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds
Niall Williams
#47. But it's well known that reading makes people impudent, and tomorrow's world is going to need some people who aren't shy to speak their minds, don't you think?
Nina George
#49. Reading good books is like engaging in conversation with the most cultivated minds of past centuries who had composed them, or rather, taking part in a well-conducted dialogue in which such minds reveal to us only the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
#50. Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude.
Benjamin Franklin
#51. Through our reading we can travel to other times and other places, into other peoples minds and hearts and souls: it is a transcendent experience.
Louise DeSalvo
#52. If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.
Harry Allen Overstreet
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