The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.
Richard BransonI had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
Haruki MurakamiI’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.
Jocko WillinkI read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
Maya AngelouWhen I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.
Terry PratchettIf you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
Robert KiyosakiHere ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.
John MuirA book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray BradburyMany a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
John SteinbeckA room without books is like a body without a soul.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI’m not a nerd, don’t plan to be a nerd and read books – which I can’t do at all.
Virat KohliAdventure is not outside man; it is within.
George EliotSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis BaconI am not a fan of books.
Kanye WestCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard ShawBuy the ticket, take the ride.
Hunter S. ThompsonThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. SeussThe problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.
Dr. SeussThere is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
Emily DickinsonI love trying new things.
The WeekndI always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I’ll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me.
Maya AngelouI’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
C. S. LewisI could speak three languages when I was six, and when I went to school, I only liked to read and sketch. At five, I could write and everything.
Karl LagerfeldAll I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.
Will RogersWhenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily DickinsonIf we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert EinsteinI read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.
Terry PratchettRead not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.
Francis BaconIt’s not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
Edmund HillaryOne of the things that we’re trying to do with Creative Labs and all our experiences is explore things that aren’t all tied to Facebook identity. Some things will be, but not everything will have to be, because there are some sets of experiences that are just better with other identities.
Mark ZuckerbergI’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.
Anthony BourdainLiterature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen KellerThe proper study of mankind is books.
Aldous HuxleyThe difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Oscar WildeMy education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan ThomasSometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Alice WalkerLeave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas JeffersonI spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves – you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories.
Ray BradburyUntil 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.
Hermann HesseLet blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren BuffettSadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.
Bono‚Classic.‘ A book which people praise and don’t read.
Mark TwainStay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!
Joyce MeyerWomen have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.
Angelina JolieThroughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.
Stephen HawkingWe seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.
Richard P. FeynmanIf aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.
Stephen HawkingThanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.
Jim MattisHow well he’s read, to reason against reading!
William ShakespeareEverywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.
Dolly PartonStill round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. TolkienThe use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel JohnsonReading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.
Paul AusterOur treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Friedrich NietzscheBooks are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.
B. C. ForbesIf you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy CarterI’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.
Joyce MeyerThe best books… are those that tell you what you know already.
George Orwell