Scripture is like a river again, broad and deep, shallow enough here for the lamb to go wading, but deep enough there for the elephant to swim. Pope Gregory I - aka Gregory the Great, Roman theologian, 590-604 Holy Father, one of the four Latin doctors of the Church(etwa 540-604), from his "Epistle to the most reverend and holy Leander", published in "Morals in Job" (between 578 and...
There is no friend as loyal as a book. Ernest M. Hemingway - American writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1954 (1899-1961), as quoted in "The Good Life According To Hemingway" (2008), Quotations book 2025
Удивительной силой обладают книги большого художника. Ты открываешь их, а они — тебя. Чинги́з Тореку́лович Айтма́тов - Кыргызский писатель (1928-2008), о творчестве казахского писателя Мухта́р Омарханович Ауэ́зов (1897-1961), из книги "Ответь себе" (1967), опубликованной в "Собрание сочинений в трёх томах", Том 3 (1984), Котировочная книга 2025 Books of a great writer have an amazing power....
You'd be amazed at how much Warren [Buffett] reads - and how much I read. They think I'm a book with a couple of legs sticking out. Charlie Munger – Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (1924-2023), Quotations book 2025
Our lives change in two ways: through the people we meet and the books we read. Harvey Mackay - American entrepreneur and author of the 2005 New York Times N° 1 bestseller "Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive" (b. 1932), from "Dig Your Well Before You're Thirsty: The Only Networking Book You'll Ever Need" (1997), Quotations book...
Как ночное небо: чем больше смотришь, тем больше звезд. Дми́трий Серге́евич Мережко́вский - русский писатель (1865-1941), из "Иисус Неизвестный", Том первый, Часть I (1932/34), Котировочная книга 2024 It is like the night sky: the longer you gaze at it, the greater is the multitude of the stars. Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky - Russian writer (1865-1941), from "Jesus the Unknown", volume 1,...
Want to improve your quality of life? Improve the quality of your reading. Jyoti Guptara – English writer and business consultant (b. 1988)
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. Haruki Murakami - Japanese writer (b. 1949), from "Norwegian Wood" ("ノルウェイの森", 1987), Quotations book 2023
La lecture d'un livre est comme l'exploration d'un univers. par Marguerite Duras - née Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, écrivaine et réalisatrice française (1914-1996)
Read 500 pages like this every day. That’s how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it. Warren Buffett – American value investor, Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway (b. 1930), to students at the Columbia University (c. 2002), Quotations book 2023
You can't replace reading with other sources of information like videos, because you need to read in order to write well, and you need to write in order to think well. Paul Graham – English-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur and author (b. 1964), in a "Twitter" message from November 16th, 2021 (since 2023 "X"), Quotations book 2023
Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. Zig Ziglar - American author, motivational speaker and entrepreneur (1926-2012)
If people stop reading, they stop thinking, and if they stop thinking, they become vulnerable to manipulation. Leaders are readers. The connection between reading and success (personal and societal) cannot be overemphasized. Jyoti Guptara – English writer and business consultant (b. 1988), Quotations book 2022
You have got to write the first sentence of a story so that whoever reads it will want to read the second one. William Faulkner - American writer, Nobel Prize in literature 1949 (1897-1962), from a from December 1951, published in Joseph Blotner (ed.): "Selected Letters of William Faulkner" (1976), Quotations book 2022
There are more truths in a good book than it"s author meant to put in it. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - Austrian writer (1830-1916), from her "Aphorisms", published in "Collected Works", book 1 (1893)
Dinosaurs didn"t read, now the"re extinct. Coincidence? rhetorical question
Whatever you are teaching be brief so that impressionable minds may readily understand what you’ve said, and hold fast to it. Quidquid praecipies, esto brevis, ut cito dicta, percipiant animi dociles teneantque fideles. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horaz) - Roman writer (65-8 B.C.), from "Ars poetica" 335 (c. 19 B.C.), Quotations book 2020
Each learns more readily, and retains more willingly, what makes him laugh than what he approves of and respects. Discit enim citius meminitque libentius illud quod quis deridet quam quod probat et veneratur. Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horaz) - Roman writer (65-8 B.C.), from "Epistularum liber secundus" (c. 14 B.C.), Quotations book 2020
Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere. Carlo Goldoni - drammaturgo e librettista italiano (1707-1793), da "La Pamela", Act 1, Scena 14 (1750) The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. Carlo Goldoni - Italian playwright and librettist (1707-1793), from "La Pamela", Act 1, Scene 14...
Отлично думается, читая. Лев Николаевич Толстой - русский писатель (1828-1910), из своих дневников (1857), Котировочная книга 2019