Wednesday, 7 January 2026

SOME QUOTES ON READING

 

                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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