Asha KRISHNA > Asha's Quotes

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality, the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
― Arthur Christopher Benson

“He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes.”
― R.H. Barrow

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― Francis Bacon, The Essays

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”
― Confucius