One Reads Quotes
56 quotes by 48 authors
-
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
— H. L. Mencken
-
When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.
— Mark Twain
-
As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good…
— Oscar Wilde
-
When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very…
— Virginia Woolf
-
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other…
— William Thurston
-
The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more…
— J M Coetzee
-
If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.
— Paul de Man
-
As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely…
— Oscar Wilde
-
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
-
Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across…
— Johannes V. Jensen
-
I tell myself it does not matter what one reads-favorite authors, particular themes-as long as we read something. It is not even important to own…
— Helen Simonson
-
I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie…
— Tablo
-
If one reads enough books, one has a fighting chance.
— Sherman Alexie
-
The only readers we get are people whom our subject interests. No one reads ads for amusement, long or short... Give them enough to take…
— Claude C. Hopkins
-
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and…
— Ambrose Bierce
-
I will begin with what in my opinion is your lack of restraint. You are like a spectator in a theatre who expresses his enthusiasm…
— Anton Chekhov
-
One should never believe everything one reads on the internet.
— Abraham Lincoln
-
One reads not for information, but inspiration.
— Wayne Teasdale
-
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false…
— George Orwell
-
The test of a good letter is a very simple one. If one seems to hear the other person talking as one reads, it is…
— A. C. Benson
Who Wrote These One Reads Quotes
48 authors contributed a total of 56 One Reads Quotes, led by these top contributors: