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Consumers get used to reading and understanding their credit card contracts, their mortgages, their check overdraft agreements, those are good things. That puts power back in the hands of consumers. -- Elizabeth Warren
Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible. -- John Piper
Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read. -- Joss Whedon
Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it? -- Trai Byers
No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes. -- Avi Arad
I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away. -- Karin Slaughter
Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago. -- Adam Hamilton
Reading has made me more open, has improved my understanding, and has made me a better artiste, but it also makes me live in my own bubble. My mom keeps asking me, 'What do you read in that room the whole day?' Once I am into a book, I will finish it. -- Sonam Kapoor
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read. -- Malorie Blackman
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are. -- Wynton Marsalis
You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free. -- Paul Rand
I was reading for understanding. I wanted to do to a reader what Salinger did for me. -- John Dufresne
I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading. -- Dwight Yoakam
Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. -- Paul Nurse
No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts. -- Bob Proctor
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. -- Andre Maurois
Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay. -- Joan Erikson
The problem is that many who reject Marx do not read him, or read him only by bringing prejudices to their reading that prevent them from understanding him. -- Allen W. Wood
If readers understand that they do not understand what they are reading then they must possess an understanding which is superior to the meaning which caused that misunderstanding. -- Arlo Guthrie
Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good"?and amazingly underutilized"?resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences. -- John Green

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