A Quote by Samuel Johnson

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

Samuel Johnson

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Love Never Reading Unless Wise

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise. One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

Kabir

Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs.

Marcus Borg

I never stop reading. I read everything, and I read every day. If you never read anything, be curious. Curiosity is the true foundation of education, reading things that we've factually already agreed on, and I love reading books. With that said, it's more important that you ask the question 'why.'

Killer Mike

Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past ? Oh, never call it loving!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Fools rush in, where wise men never go, But wise men never fall in love, so how are they to know?

Johnny Mercer

You are never stuck, unless you are choosing to stay there. You are never limited, unless you choose to limit yourself. You are never less than, unless you choose to see yourself this way. You will never fail, unless you choose failure as an option. You are powerful beyond belief!

Jennifer O'Neill

Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Joan Erikson

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.

Robert Breault

Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving; Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!

Robert Browning

I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.

Daniel S. Loeb

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

Richard Baxter

What the essential difference between man and woman is, that they should be thus attracted to one another, no one has satisfactorily answered. Perhaps we must acknowledge the justness of the distinction which assigns to man the sphere of wisdom, and to woman that of love, though neither belongs exclusively to either. Man is continually saying to woman, Why will you not be more wise? Woman is continually saying to man, Why will you not be more loving? It is not in their wills to be wise or to be loving; but, unless each is both wise and loving, there can be neither wisdom nor love.

Henry David Thoreau

Reading usually precedes writing. And the impulse to write is almost always fired by reading. Reading, the love of reading, is what makes you dream of becoming a writer.

Susan Sontag

We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.