Book Quote by Amos Bronson Alcott

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books.

— Amos Bronson Alcott

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

— Mark Twain

The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much…

— Norman Cousins

“No book is really worth reading, which does not either impart valuable knowledge; or set before us some ideal of beauty, strength, or nobility…

— J.R. Miller

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

— Richard Baxter

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— Anonymous

The way a book is read, which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book can have as much to do…

— Norman Cousins

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

— H. L. Mencken

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

— Jacqueline Winspear

No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.

— Seneca the Younger

The virtue of books is to be readable.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson