Top 1200 Worth Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

It’s not how much something’s worth today, it’s what it’s worth in five or 10 years.

You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life

All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have learned. The conscientious reader will be more concerned to carry out what he has read than merely to acquire knowledge of it. In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study.

No guy is worth your tears, but when you find that one that could be worth it, he shouldn't make you cry.

We properly judge a critic's virtue not by his freedom from error but by the nature of the mistakes he does make, for he makes them, if he is worth reading, because he has in mind something besides his perceptions about art in itself - he has in mind the demands that he makes upon life.

When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.

One pound of uranium is worth about 3 million pounds worth of coal or oil.

Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading.

Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?

Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.

Take big bites. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.

Now if you know what you're worth. Then go out and get what you're worth.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

Light reading is not to be avoided but should be used as a conduit to more serious reading.

Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading projects arrayed before us, we cannot breathe our last: Tell the Angel of Death to come back later; I haven't quite finished Villette.

As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.

While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "C’mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writer’s cramp while reading.

When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why are they reading the newspaper?' When you're young, you're not reading the newspaper. But there comes a time in your life when the newspaper's cool.

I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it

I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort me at the close of this life but this passage of St. Paul: "It is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners." To this I cleave, and herein do I find rest.

Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their individual imprint on a book they have read. Once of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.

There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race.

Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.

Work and self-worth are the two factors in pride that interact with each other and that tend to increase the strong sense of pride found in superior work teams. When people do something of obvious worth, they feel a strong sense of personal worth.

Reading yields a wish to write, I think, except if the reading is dull and uninspiring.

We're all worth it, man. We're all worth millions of planets and stars and galaxies and universes.

It does take a little work to be a vegetarian but it's so worth it, oh it's so worth it!

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

The isness of things is well worth studying; but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.

The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat.

Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.

[Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently. It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It's kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.

You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.

In reading Chesterton, as in reading MacDonald, I did not know what I was letting myself in for. A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere — "Bibles laid open, millions of surprises," as Herbert says, "fine nets and stratagems." God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.

If you're going to start something-if it's worth starting-then it's worth finishing. That's what I live by.

Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

A live unexamined isn't worth living. I will add, "A life unlived isn't worth examining.

We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.

It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Life isn't worth living until you have found something worth dying for.

It's not how much something's worth today, it's what it's worth in five or 10 years.

Just pay my what I'm worth. I'm a fair guy, I'm not asking more than what I'm worth.

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

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.'

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

If something is worth being rude about, it is worth understanding as well.