SOME QUOTES ON READING
Reading is defined as the activity
or skill of looking at and comprehending the meaning of written or printed matter by
interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed. It is also explained
as a cognitive process that involves decoding symbols to arrive at meaning. It
is further interpreted as an active process of constructing meanings of words.
Some synonyms of reading are : study, perusal, browsing, scanning, scrutiny, etc.
Common sources of reading are----
books, newspapers, magazines, journals, periodicals, blogs, dictionaries, dissertations,
notices, advertisements, editorials,
articles, digests, encyclopedias, bibliographies, social media, websites, edicts,
laws, engravings, etc.
Among the benefits of reading are: stress reduction, improved memory,
enhanced focus, increased knowledge, stronger brain connections, expanded
vocabulary, improved creativity, better memory, stronger critical thinking, impressive
writing skills, enhanced empathy, and expanded knowledge of the world on the
whole.
Some famous quotes on reading are:
1.
Reading
serves for delight, for ornament, for ability.---English essayist Francis
Bacon.
2.
No
entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.—M.W.Montague.
3.
Happy
is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and
passionate love for reading.----Rufus Choate.
4.
A
man of ability, for the chief of his reading, should select such works as he
feels are beyond his own power to have produced. What can other books do for
him but waste his time or augment his vanity.---J. Foster
5.
Reading
maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and,
therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer
little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have
much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.----Francis Bacon English
essayist.
6.
I have to lose myself in other men’s minds.
When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.—English
essayist Charles Lamb.
7.
Force yourself to reflect on what you read
paragraph by paragraph.----English poet and critic S.T.Coleridge.
Finally,
this famous quote by somebody : Show me a family of readers, and I will show you
the people who move the world.
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G.R.Kanwal
7th January 2026
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