The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature.
— Antonio Gaudi
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The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.
I read when I get up in the morning, when I can during the day and every single evening. Most of my weekends are spent reading great books. Books are my constant companions. If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.
That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England.
England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ.
In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.
All that is gold does not glitter.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Great books help you understand, and they help you feel understood.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart.
Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.
In Great Britain, an author published a book in which he claimed that Jesus Christ had children. Such statements don't trigger civil unrest and bloodshed in Europe. But write similar statements about Islam in Syria and you might see bloody uprisings.
Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings.
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.
Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
It’s better to read a great book slowly than to fly through a hundred books quickly.
If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!
Some people, in order to discover God, read books.
But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?
So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.
What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket.
But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.
The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.
We find little in a book but what we put there.
But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.