Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
– Tom Bissell
Related Quotes:
- This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. – Ayn Rand
- Those who are blindly led, blindly follow. – Justin K McFarlane Beau
- When your wife asks you for your opinion, she doesn’t really want your opinion. She wants her opinion – just in a deeper voice. – T Rafael Cimino
- Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts. – Tom Bissell
- Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self. – Tom Bissell
- Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self. – Tom Bissell
- Of that time, there is still much we do not know. – Tom Bissell
- I think the highest purpose of fiction is to show that all people are fundamentally worthy of mercy. – Tom Bissell
- I’m interested in the moment when two objects collide and generate a third. The third object is where the interesting work is. – Bruce Mau
- First class Manager hire first class leader, second class Manager hire third class manager and third class manager fire first class leader. – Carsten K Rath
- Wisdom is creating your own opinion. Everyone else is following someone else’s opinion. – Debasish Mridha
- The greatest compliments I’ve ever received were complaints from readers that I made them stay up all night reading. – HE Fairbanks
- Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. – Harry Truman
- My late husband and I started our sons off as readers at a very young age. Today, they are voracious readers. – Soraya Diase Coffelt
- The whole world’s writing novels, but nobody’s reading them. We need readers. More readers. Fewer writers. – Robert Galbraith
- All writers begin as readers, and the ones worth reading continue life as more prolific readers than writers. – Thomas Swick
- We’ are the self (chetan, Soul) and obstruction (antray) are non-self (achetan, non-Soul); therefore, the Self (chetan, Soul) shall win in the end! – Dada Bhagwan
- That which never attains a state of non-principle [non-truth] is known as the principle. – Dada Bhagwan
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Religion is a non-alcoholic man’s alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man’s religion. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- I’ll never be a non-stumbler. I’ll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler. – TobyMac
- There’s a much different message received, when the signs written in the flesh were not in your hand writing. – Dixie Waters
- Faith is receiving a blessing before you have seen it.Wisdom is taking care of the blessing once you have received it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch. – Bette Davis
- Always have your own opinion and build upon that. Person without opinion is just like a dead soul!!! – Santosh Adbhut Kumar
- For every opinion, there is an equal and opposite opinion. – Kent Alan Robinson
- Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence. – Dada Bhagwan
- You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand. – Mark Twain
- I learnt that popular opinion is not necessarily the right opinion. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. – Anthony Trollope
- Never allow yourself to be defined by some else’s opinion of you….unless they hold a higher opinion of you than you have for yourself. – Audrey Moralez
- Never allow yourself to be defined by some else’s opinion of you….unless they hold a higher opinion of you than you have for yourself. – Audrey Moralez
- My Opinion Is Just Opinion – Sushil Singh
- It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect. – Bohdi Sanders
- We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. – John Stuart Mill
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. – Henry David Thoreau
- I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody’s opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself. – Ruben Studdard
- Never patronize your readers. That means don’t talk down to them. – Tom Greer
- If God creates morality, then morality is nothing more than the whimsy of a divine being blindly followed by humans. – Armin Navabi