Libba Bray Quotes

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

If a person is constantly evolving, constantly reading new material and being exposed to new material and growing in life, then you're becoming, hopefully, a more intelligent and well-rounded individual. If you're not then something's wrong and you're sliding back in the other direction.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said.

It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.

There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

The people who encouraged me weren't necessarily writers or readers themselves. They were people who were just pleased to see me devote my life to reading and writing.

Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.

Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library.

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

I suppose books mean more than people to me.

Every head should be cultivated.

Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.

It is, however, not necessary, that a man should forbear to write, till he has discovered some truth unknown before; he may be sufficiently useful, by only diversifying the surface of knowledge, and luring the mind by a new appearance to a second view of those beauties which it had passed over inattentively before.

Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.

I always believe leaders are readers, so you've got to read 30 minutes a day of something that's going to inspire you.

The man who never reads lives only one.

I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first thing that strikes me. I believe in choosing books based on the dust jacket.