"When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page. The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our ownâthe place where we liveâand the vibration enables us to find fresh starting points within ourselves."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living,
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reading
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Reading
101 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Reading â
Related Quotes
"God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learâŠ"
"Zwar sind sie an das Beste nicht gewöhnt, Allein sie haben schrecklich viel gelesen."
"I read my eyes out and can't read half enoughâŠ. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read."
"Others such as these met him in the outer mountain and thought to mock him because he had not learned letters. And AnâŠ"
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
"Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weighâŠ"
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are âŠ"
"People who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't."
"READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short storiâŠ"
"The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertâŠ"