Avoiding Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Mark Twain

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.

— Mary Ann Shaffer

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

An acquaintanceship with the literature of the world may be won by any person who will devote half an hour a day to the…

— John Andreas Widtsoe

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to…

— Nick Hornby

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is…

— Rudyard Kipling

“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is living and…

— Henry Miller

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

— Hannah More

Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of…

— Ezra Pound

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until…

— Ezra Pound

A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual…

— Theodore L. Cuyler