Quotation Explorer - 'Contents'

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. - B.F. Skinner
A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - George Eliot
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul. - Meg Rosoff
Happiness is an indescribable intense ecstasy of life that comes from deep love and kindness for the world and all of its contents. - Debasish Mridha
Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
No matter how banal the contents, there is always something that touches me. For someone now dead once thought these words significant enough to write them down. - Diane Setterfield
A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. - Unknown
I am deeply in love with the world and its contents. My heartaches when I see any suffering so kindness and altruism is my ultimate way of life. - Debasish Mridha
How light the raindrop's contents are;how gently the world touches me.From View With a Grain of Sand - Wisława Szymborska
Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history. - Michael Bassey Johnson
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. - Ezra Pound
Just because you see bad contents in few pages of the bookIt doesn't mean the whole contents in that book are bad too - 69rascal
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - H. P. Lovecraft
It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time. - Alex Filippenko
Life is not measured by its length but by its contents. - Debasish Mridha
The most merciful thing in the world . . . is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
Your level of consciousness depends on your love and understanding of this universe and all its contents. - Debasish Mridha
A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents. - Debasish Mridha
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987) - Anatole Broyard
Your world is nothing but a reflection of your mind and all of its contents. - Debasish Mridha
[W]hen one has a religious experience, what is 'true' is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality. To determine that, one needs a way to verify the contents of a revelation, and that means science. - Jerry A. Coyne
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam. - Ambrose Bierce
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