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:

• 3 One Reads Quotes by George Orwell
• 2 One Reads Quotes by Oscar Wilde
• 2 One Reads Quotes by Italo Calvino
• 2 One Reads Quotes by Sherman Alexie
• 2 One Reads Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 One Reads Quote by A. C. Benson
• 1 One Reads Quote by Marcel Proust
• 1 One Reads Quote by Louis Sullivan
• 1 One Reads Quote by John Grisham
• 1 One Reads Quote by Dean H. Kenyon
• 1 One Reads Quote by Voltaire
• 1 One Reads Quote by Helen Keller
• 1 One Reads Quote by Garrison Keillor
• 1 One Reads Quote by James Joyce
• 1 One Reads Quote by John Adams
• 1 One Reads Quote by N.K. Jemisin
• 1 One Reads Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
• 1 One Reads Quote by Frank O'Hara
• 1 One Reads Quote by Lawrence Durrell
• 1 One Reads Quote by H. L. Mencken
• 1 One Reads Quote by Paul Auster
• 1 One Reads Quote by Mark Twain
• 1 One Reads Quote by Daniel Handler
• 1 One Reads Quote by Virginia Woolf
• 1 One Reads Quote by Aldous Huxley