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[Quote No.68991] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on." - David Brin
Scientist, futurist and best-selling author.
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[Quote No.69046] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is a way of finding companionship without giving up solitude.
" - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.69095] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Words are but pictures of our thoughts!" - John Dryden
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[Quote No.69128] Need Area: Fun > Books
"History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity!!" - Dexter Perkins
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[Quote No.69131] Need Area: Fun > Books
"History is a symphony of echoes heard and unheard. It is a poem with events as verses!" - Charles Angoff
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[Quote No.69135] Need Area: Fun > Books
"History is the [selective, objective and subjective] story of events, with praise or blame! " - Cotton Mather
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[Quote No.69143] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both!!" - C. Wright Mills
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[Quote No.69265] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine." - Ernest Hemingway
(1899 - 1961), American author and journalist.
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[Quote No.69329] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge!
" - Stephen Hawking
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[Quote No.69358] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.
" - Stephen Hawking
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[Quote No.69469] Need Area: Fun > Books
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking!" - Haruki Murakami
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[Quote No.69496] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda; individual opinion and subjective truth:] A poem cannot stop a bullet. A novel can't defuse a bomb... But we are not helpless... We can sing the truth and name the liars... we must work to overturn the false narrative of tyrants." - Salman Rushdie
(1947 - ), writer.
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[Quote No.70166] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Focus on what you want and distract from what you don't want:] I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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[Quote No.70605] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty." - Edgar Allan Poe
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[Quote No.70656] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Knowledge, experience, fantasy and imagination:-] Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice!" - Henry David Thoreau
(1817 - 1862) American Author
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[Quote No.70742] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Education is the best friend!!" - Chanakya
(375 BC - 283 BC), Chanakya - also known as Kautilya - was an ancient Indian polymath who was a teacher, author, strategist, philosopher, economist, jurist, and royal advisor. He played a prominent role in the foundation of the Maurya Empire.
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[Quote No.71041] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The walls of books around me, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters." - Ross Macdonald
(1915-1983), novelist.
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[Quote No.71086] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A man should hear a little music,
read a little poetry,
and see a fine picture every day of his life,
in order that worldly cares may not obliterate
the sense of the beautiful . . ." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[Quote No.71397] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Individualism:] No two persons ever read the same book. [This makes sense when we realize that each book or piece of art combines the artist’s expression with the reactions of the Ãmagination, memory and sentiments within each individual in the audience, producing experiences unique to each person. It could in the same way be argued that no-one experiences anything in the world in the same way as anyone else.]" - Edmund Wilson
(1895-1972), critic.
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[Quote No.71407] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, and the one who doesn’t read, lives just one!" - George RR Martin
(1948 - ), American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer.
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[Quote No.71410] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[The mystery of life and death; wanting a fuller and longer life:-] A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, and the one who doesn’t read, lives just one." - George RR Martin
(1948 - ), American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer.
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[Quote No.71415] Need Area: Fun > Books
"So many books, so little time!" - Frank Zappa
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[Quote No.71574] Need Area: Fun > Books
"We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
" - Judith Butler
[Refer https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/07/judith-butler-mcgill-2013-commencement-address/ ]
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[Quote No.71587] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The humanities teach us...how to imagine life from the point of view of someone unlike yourself.
" - Martha C. Nussbaum
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[Quote No.71591] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Morality and ethics; empathetic imagination:-] As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.
" - Martha C. Nussbaum
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[Quote No.71662] Need Area: Fun > Books
"My Alma mater was books, a good library ...I could spend
the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
" - Malcolm X
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[Quote No.71683] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I consider reading the greatest bargain in the world. A shelf of books is a shelf of many lives and ideas and imaginations which the reader can enjoy whenever he wishes and as often as he wishes. Instead of experiencing just one life, the book-lover can experience hundreds or even thousands of lives. He can live any kind of adventure in the world. Books are his time machine into the past and also into the future. Books are his ‘transporter’ by which he can beam instantly to any part of the universe and explore what he finds there. Books are an instrument by which he can become any person for a while - a man, a woman, a child, a general, a farmer, a detective, a king, a doctor, anyone.
Great books are especially valuable because a great book often contains within its covers the wisdom of a man or woman’s whole lifetime. But the true lover of books enjoys all kinds of books, even some nonsense now and then, because enjoying nonsense from others can teach us to also laugh at ourselves. A person who does not learn to laugh at his own problems and weaknesses and foolishness can never be a truly educated or a truly happy person. Also, probably the same thing could be said of a person who does not enjoy learning and growing all his life." - Gene Roddenberry
television screenwriter and creator of ‘Star Trek’.
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[Quote No.71689] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Most books I don’t read past the first chapter. I’m not burdened by bad books. [Life is too short to persist with bad books especially when there are so many good, interesting and informative ones waiting to be discovered and enjoyed.]" - Charlie Munger
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[Quote No.71707] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Empathy is an imaginative skill:] Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They [the senses] never did and never can carry us beyond our own persons. It is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his sensations!" - Adam Smith
A quote from the second edition of his classic ‘Theory of Moral Sentiments’, published in 1762.
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[Quote No.71708] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer’s alone." - Thomas C. Foster
As quoted in his book, ‘How to Read Literature Like a Professor’ (2003).
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[Quote No.71841] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Why read, etc?] ...we seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves. Each of us by nature sees the whole world from one point of view with a perspective and a selectiveness peculiar to himself. And even when we build disinterested fantasies, they are saturated with, and limited by, our own psychology. ... We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own." - C.S. Lewis
Quote from his book, ‘An Experiment in Criticism’.
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[Quote No.71860] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, ‘Lighthouses’ as the poet said ‘erected in the sea of time’. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print." - Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
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[Quote No.71977] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere." - Mary Schmich
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[Quote No.71979] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door." - Oprah Winfrey
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[Quote No.72052] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul!!" - Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430 AD), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most eloquent and important Church Fathers of the Latin Church. His many important works include ‘The City of God’, ‘On Christian Doctrine’, and ‘Confessions’.
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[Quote No.72057] Need Area: Fun > Books
"When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar." - Augustine of Hippo
Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430 AD), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa. His writings influenced the development of Western philosophy and Western Christianity, and he is viewed as one of the most eloquent and important Church Fathers of the Latin Church. His many important works include ‘The City of God’, ‘On Christian Doctrine’, and ‘Confessions’.
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[Quote No.72112] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[life-skills, wisdom, wise quotes to ponder each day:-] My worry is that, especially now that you’re out of college, you won’t put enough really excellent stuff into your brain. I’m talking about what you might call the ‘theory of maximum taste’. This theory is based on the idea that exposure to genius has the power to expand your consciousness. If you spend a lot of time with genius, your mind will end up bigger and broader than if you spend your time only with run-of-the-mill stuff.
The theory of maximum taste says that each person’s mind is defined by its upper limit - the best that it habitually consumes and is capable of consuming!" - David Brooks
A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person - The Atlantic, May 13, 2020.
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[Quote No.72125] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination." - Caitlin Moran
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[Quote No.72126] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The small library in my Cleveland-area day school was merely a gateway drug to the local public library a mile from my home. I spent innumerable hours there as a boy, addicted as much to the serendipitous pleasures of searching for a good book as to the satisfying relish of losing myself in its pages once I found one." - Jeff Jacoby
Journalist. Quote from The Boston Globe, June 18, 2015.
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[Quote No.72127] Need Area: Fun > Books
"If humanity were to lose its libraries...it would lose its recipes for living." - George Duhamel
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[Quote No.72131] Need Area: Fun > Books
"We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of that memory is called the library. ...Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species!" - Carl Sagan
From ‘Cosmos’, (1980).
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[Quote No.72162] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There’s a second component of reading that many people don’t realize exists: searching for the good books. There are a huge number of books and only a small percentage of them are really good, so reading means searching. Someone who tries to read but doesn’t understand about the need to search will end up reading bad books, and will wonder why people who read a lot like to do something so boring!" - Paul Graham
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[Quote No.72174] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight." - Baron de Montesquieu
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[Quote No.72338] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The easy, conversational tone of good writing comes only on the eighth rewrite.
" - Paul Graham
Entrepreneur and investor
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[Quote No.72428] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It is easy to write a check if you have enough money in the bank, and writing comes more easily if you have something to say." - Sholem Asch
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[Quote No.72719] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." - George R.R. Martin
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[Quote No.72748] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It is a great thing, indeed, to make a proper use of the poetical forms, as also of compounds and strange words. But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity in dissimilars." - Aristotle
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[Quote No.72759] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not [necessarily and indiscriminately] taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. - A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short." - Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
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[Quote No.72780] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[Focus on what you want which is good and in your control and distract from what you do not want which is not good and is not in your control:-] When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books." - Michel de Montaigne
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[Quote No.72825] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual. [Most so called successful people, especially those that achieve something others find too difficult, have been profoundly affected by some unmet need that then goes on to focus persistently their desire and attention towards some related special interest for which they then become known.]" - Martin Amis
(1949-2023). Writer
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