Reading

“Do not say that one or two books is sufficient for instructing the soul.”

“The ability to crawl inside the mind of another is what makes reading the ultimate democratic act in a democratic society.”

“I stop reading wherever apocryphism rears its two-faced head.”

“The idea is as old as the day is long in journalism, really, you’ve got to think like your readers”

“今之學者，讀古人書，多訾古人之失；與今人居，亦樂稱人失。”

“Membaca juga berarti memaknai dan mengikuti.”

“Jesus Christ and his Word, the Bible, come first and foremost in my life.”

“經以明道，而求道者不必空執義理求之也。但當正文字、辨音讀、釋訓詁、通傳注，則義理自見而道在其中矣。”

“We have to deconstruct the idea that we have to fix on one way of reading the Bible.”

“Reading is to the Mind, what Exercise is to the Body.”

“Našel jsem tu Válku s mloky. K Čapkovi jsem měl vždycky blízko.”

“My chief pleasure has been books.”

“The link between the two is that you have to be very careful with the text, and that you can respond to a text in various ways.”

“經以明道，以求道者不必空執義理求之也。但當正文字，辨音讀，釋訓詁，通傳注，則義理自見，而道在其中矣。”

“Amidst that large and valuable collection of books, I found an inexhaustible source of information and entertainment.”

“فإن بيتا بغير كتب هو بيت بغير فكر.. أى بيت بلا روح، والمقابر هو المكان الوحيد الذى يخلو من الكتب.”

“Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.”

“لستُ أهوى القراءةَ لأكتبَ، ولا أهوى القراءةَ لأزدادَ عُمُرًا في تقديرِ الحسابِ، وإنما أهوى القراءةَ؛ لأنَّ عندي حياةً واحدةً في هذه الدنيا وحياةً واحدةً لا تكفيني.”