Books are almost as individual as friends. There is no earthly use in laying down general laws about them. Some meet the needs of one person, and some of another; and each person should beware of the booklover’s besetting sin, of what Mr. Edgar Allan Poe calls ‘the mad pride of intellectuality, ’ taking the shape of arrogant pity for the man who does not like the same kind of books. Theodore Roosevelt
Before this generation lose the wisdom, one advice - read books.
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Amit Kalantri
If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a...
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Thomas Brooks
I am thankful to my teachers who taught me how to read.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
If a nation reads what is good with a good understanding, it gets a good understanding for a good nation building!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
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C.s. Lewis
More Quotes By Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred...
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
