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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and...

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about faith

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage...

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about contentment

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy...

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Quote by George Herbert about advice, wine, friendship, love, life, contentment

Read nature, nature is a friend of truth.

Read nature, nature is a friend of truth.

Quote by Edward Young about truth, nature

Read in order to live.

Read in order to live.

Quote by Helen Fielding about books, order

Read as much as you can. Nothing will help you as much as...

Read as much as you can. Nothing will help you as much as reading

Quote by Joanne K. Rowling about advice

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15...

I don't read my own reviews and I haven't for probably 15 years. I read other people's reviews, though.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about haven, people

To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let...

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.

Quote by Michael Caine about influence, books

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden. ''

Quote by Augustin de Hipona

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Quote by Winston Churchill about memory, good, good luck, books, things, contentment, man

I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes about heads, things, people

If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you...

If you read to me, I could tell you everything that you read.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about contentment

I am doing another series for a San Antonio library for a charity called Born to Read. It supports literacy among young kids, trying to encourage kids to read and write.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about encouragement, charity

When a student asks for a second time if you have read...

When a student asks for a second time if you have read his book report, he did not read the book.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about students, education, time, contentment

I read mostly fiction and some poetry. I don't tend to...

I read mostly fiction and some poetry. I don't tend to read nonfiction unless I'm doing research for my own writing.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about science, fiction, research, poetry, writing

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of...

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about fame, wish

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

Quote by William Faulkner about literature, writers, time, artists

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to...

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Quote by Francoise Sagan about regret, books, things, time

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Quote by William Shakespeare about books, eyes

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