Reading is not something enjoyable by some and everyone has one reason or the other for flipping through the pages of a book. Some do it for leisure, some, academic purposes, while to some others, it's just a means to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. Whatever it is, reading is said to be a time honoured endeavour that leaves the reader better than he came, increases attention span and ultimately increase knowledge base.
In the fast paced world today, more specifically since everything became “digital and smart” and information is easily acquired by the touch of the fingers, there now appears to be so much books to read with so little time.
In today's timeless words of wisdom, I bring to you the spoken words from the minds of great readers and writers over the years for some motivations...
Good day, steemians...
Here are today's ten timeless quotes
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon
A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others
- Abraham Lincoln
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
- C. S. Lewis
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts
- Rene Descartes
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
- Joyce Carol Oates
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
-Oscar Wilde
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance
- Confucius
You will be the same person you are today in five years but for two things: the people you meet and the books you read.”
- Charlie Jones
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
-Alan Bennett
Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.
-Vera Nazarian