Benjamin Franklin pointed out that, “The U.S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up to it yourself.” – Mac Anderson www.SimpleTruths.com
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas – a place where history comes to life.”- Norman Cousins
“Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.”- John Wesley
“He who no longer reads should get out of the ministry.”- John Wesley
“My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.”- Abraham Lincoln
“One of the best ways to expand his horizon is through a regular reading program.”- John F. Kennedy
“The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own.”- Charles Spurgeon
“The person who won’t read has no advantage over the person who can’t.”- Rev. Clifford Warren, Welsh clergyman
“Do not deny yourself the help of good books on the subject of your lessons. Buy, borrow or beg, if necessary, but obtain somehow the help of the best thinkers, enough at least to stimulate your own thought; but do not read without thinking. If possible, talk the lesson over with an intelligent friend; collision often brings light.”- John Milton Gregory
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”- Atwood H. Townsend
“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